I'm going to post a question for which I will actually have much more information in several hours, when the film in the washer is done and dry and I can scan it. But anyway, my question is whether there is a digital equivalent to what Fred Picker termed a "proper proof?"
Since it has been below freezing this week I've been experimenting. First, pictures of my living room, which involved reciprocity effects. So I exposed at Ilford's recommended correction (HP-5+) and then at a calculated correction factor which, IIRC, came from View Camera magazine, and was much longer.
Next I found some outdated Tri-X in my basement, so I set up a quick still life and exposed at 200, 100, 50, and 25 ASA, to see if it is usable.
I could see as the negs came out of the PMK that they all have images, but of course there should be some pretty noticeable density and shadow detail differences. But my scanner seems to correct for density, I.e. it tries to give me a reasonable scan regardless of differences in negatives. A proper proof would of course tell me which exposures were best, but I'm not sure if I will be able to tell as easily from the scans. Any thoughts? (I won't be offended if the answer is to just be patient and see what comes out later tonight.)
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