Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/03/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A minor nit, but what you'll get is depth of focus. Depth of field occurs at the subject (the negative in this case), depth of focus occurs at the film plane of a camera or the easel. However, what you gain in depth of focus you lose to diffraction and the potential for overly long exposure times. Make sure your enlarger is in alignment and keep your aperature at f/5.6 or f/8. Use smaller aperatures for those thin negatives or when you need more time for complicated burns and dodges. Roger Suppona > What, if any, practical effect does the aperture setting of a enlarging > lens have? If you print a negative at f/16, will you have a greater > "depth of field" in the sense that if the negative is not perfectly flat > in the carrier, that area of the negative will print sharper than if you > printed the same, not-perfectly-flat negative at f/2.8? > > Thanks for your thoughts. >