Re: [Leica] Re: Color negs on black and white paper

["Roland Smith" <roland@dnai.com>]

Thanks, I'll look into the filter upgrade.   The prints I made this
afternoon were on my Omega D2 with a 50mm Companon lens.   Using a #4 and a
#3 filter stack, it took 2 minutes at f8.   The picture was a street shot at
dusk and the contrast on the print came out excellent.

Roland Smith
- ----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2000 12:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Color negs on black and white paper


> Ken Wilcox wrote:
> >
> > Roland:
> >
> > I just made the print this morning and stacked a #5 with a #2. I don't
know
> > if the contrast equaled a 7 but it was defiantly much greater than the 5
> > alone.
> >
> > Ken Wilcox
> >
> > At 8:36 -0800 1/23/0, a fine scholar, Roland Smith wrote:
> >
> > >My Ilford filter kit has only grades 1 thru 4.   If I stack a 4 and a 3
can
> > >I get the same result as a 7?
> > >
> > >Roland Smith
> >
> > ----
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>
> My guess is you are in effect creating a neural density with the yellows
of the
> #2 against the magentas of the #5.
> Get a new Ilford set that goes from 0-5 it's not all that expensive. Your
set
> has got to be an antique and wont match your paper as well.
> I've made nice prints with an old Aristo cold light on Multigrade with NO
filter
> from a color neg which is my usual approach to being in the unfortunate
position
> have having to make a quality black and white print from a color neg.
> This was from my "best shot" and I have printed this neg in every
conceivable
> way on every conceivable size.
> And this has worked better than Panalure
> Mark Rabiner
> I'm looking forward to outputting some old soft crappy color neg (VPS?)
stuff
> onto black and white film after scanning it on my Umax PowerlookIII
flatbed
> which gives me files in the hundreds of megabytes. Think this will work?
>