Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Eric.....I am trying it again tonight. Francesco At 05:30 AM 10/28/98 , Eric Welch wrote: >>At 5 seconds, same thing....faint images. At 3 seconds, I was getting >>tired and when better, but still faint, images appeared, I was relieved >>and figured I was on the right track. But I quit for the night. >>I remain confused. > >It's quite obvious. The light is too strong. So you need to use the light >farther away from the paper. Or use a weaker light. If your safelight is >amber, or even close, it's safe, but keep it a long way away from the paper >too. Dark rooms are supposed to be dark rooms. Just enough light to see >what you're doing. The light should be such that your exposures are between >about 5 and 25 seconds. That keeps it from getting too long it gets boring, >and too short to make it hard to find a precise exposure. >-- > >Eric Welch >St. Joseph, MO >http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch > > A modernfleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as expoit a >highway. - Joseph Conrad >