Originally Posted by
Matthew Cordery
Never done film calibration before but now that I have the equipment at home I'm giving it a try. Dumb question #0001 (note possibility for 9999 dumb questions):
I'm sure this is obvious but when you are making a contact print of a 4x5 negative using your enlarger, are you metering first off of a grey card placed under the light source to get the exposure correct? Any other gotchas? At this point, I've acquired a slosher tray from Summitek (fine piece o' plastic that is) and have a tempering bath set up for my developer using a fish tank heater and pump (seems to work well in getting the temp right). My Zonemaster should handle the densitometry part right.
Some might say that densitometry is unnecessary (like Barnbaum) but I want to run through it for no other reason than my own edification and the fact that I don't have B.B's decades o' experience....
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