Hi all,
I've dusted off the Wista and got back into the darkroom after a few years' hiatus. Since I started printing I've always applied the split grade technique by finding the G0 exposure followed by the G5 exposure. Mostly without issues - today however I found that to get a semi decent tonal range I needed 16s G0 base exposure followed by 2s G5 - at f22!
Print size is 16x9.5" using Ilford MG V RC. Would this be a symptom of a thin, high contrast neg? The neg itself doesn't look too bad, perhaps slightly underexposed. I don't have a densitometer to check. I did scan the neg as a proof and there is no clipping, in fact it looks tonally more pleasing than the print, which is annoying.
The G0/G5 exposure differences seem very odd to me - can anyone suggest where I'm going wrong?
Cheers
Steffen
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