Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Actually, I could see that the prints were out of focus - all of them. The problem was that no matter how many times I refocused, they never got any better. Then I figured out that the diopter setting in the grain magnifier had slipped. Jim Brick wrote: > At 11:09 PM 12/13/00 -0500, Dante A Stella wrote: > > > >I wouldn't be so grumpy, but I just went through four hours of printing not > >understanding why the prints all looked out of focus. Then I noticed the > >grain magnifier was not aligned properly. Grrr. > > I have a light, like a pool hall light, hanging over my hypo tray. In goes > the print, on goes the light. It is inspected closely and carefully (lifted > out of the hypo) for things like unsharp grain, or other artifacts that can > only be seen on a processed print held close to a bright light. You cannot > tell these things while a print is submerged in hypo or water. > > Pick up each print and inspect it. > > Then you will fix (no pun intended) any problem before it wastes a lot of > paper and time. > > Jim (Learned the hard way) Brick