Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark, I would be interested to hear your objections to the posting you were replying to. Please be as specific as possible in describing what you found to be inaccurate and objectionable to KT's post. I'm also interested in why you were insulted by the information provided. I hope you will take the opportunity to explain. George At 12:27 AM 27/01/99 -0800, Mark wrote: > >> Printing, without dodging or burning in two exposures at a different contrast levels, will only give you a contrast # something in between the two. Each VC filter allows green and blue light to pass through in varying amounts. It really doesn't matter whether the blue light arrives in one exposure, and then the green, or the blue/green light is delivered all at once. The end result would be the same. I don't think the two exposure printing without masking can achieve tonal distributions that aren't achievable with a single exposure under the appropriate filtration. Of course, burning and dodging with different filters is a very powerful method of modifying images, but, there is no magic can be worked by simple split filtering. Such a result would have to come from changing the curvature of the characteristic of the emulsion and that is fixed by the emulsion itself. >> I truly belive that mostly split printing proponents see something there for their efforts. Like so many Leica things, it's just an issue of personal preference, on which reasonable minds can and do disagree. >> For further reading, I recommend the article "Variable Contrast Papers Revealed", by Phil Davis in Photo Techniques, Sept-Oct 1994. >> >> KT > >I have printed black and white for thirty four years, the last four >using the split printing technique. Though you speak with great >authority KT your assertions are patently false, each and every one of >them. It might be more interesting to find out from where you got them. >Is it the article you are quoting? >You never quite got around to telling us just how much experience you've >had with the technique. Have you tried it even once? I doubt it. >In the nice few months I have been on the lug I have said a few dumb, >non backed up things and read quite a few but nothing comes close to >being as insulting to any ones intelligence as this. >Mark Rabiner >