Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/10/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 17:42 08/10/97 -0400, you wrote: >>Unfortunately modern VC papers respond well to much shorter wavelenghts of >>light, down into the near UV where the human eye sees almost nothing. As a >>result, even when we focus our enlargers through a deep blue filter, we're >>using a diffeent part of the spectrum than the print paper sees. The print >>paperresponds to light outside the normal spectral range for which the >>lens is optically corrected. > >THis may be a stupid question, but what would happen if you put a UV >filter on your enlarger lens, or put it between the neg and the light >source? >- Paul That wasn't me, it was quoted from the text of Ctein's article in Darkroom User. But I don't think it's a stupid question, I also wondered why no-one had (apparently) tried that. There was a brief reference to this matter in a thread on rec.photo.darkroom that mentioned a lot of people doing a lot of testing after that article came out, and most finding they didn't have a problem. If I find I have a problem (my darkroom is just about ready to use, give or take something to put my Nova pod on) I will try a UV filter. I don't suppose there is a darkroom email list anywhere on the net?... Joe Berenbaum