[Leica] The economy of film...

[richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard)]

Ah, two things: 1) Dry Down effect is fairly consistent with the same paper 
and developer. Do the test once, and then adjust the timing when you make 
the final print whenever you use the same paper and developer, 2) the RH 
Analyzer supposedly avoids the Dry Down effect because you spot the whitest 
white with details and the darkest dark with details. If you trust that, 
then you can more or less ignore what you see because the Dry Down is built 
into the calculation.

At 11:59 PM 2/8/2006, Daniel Ridings wrote:
>...But I never found working in the darkroom an immediate experience. You
>always had to guess the "dry down" effect on the print, how it would
>look the next day when it was dry. A print can look beautiful with
>rich, deep blacks when it is wet ... but dry it and you get another
>print.
>
>No, immediency is not something I would apply to wet darkrooms.
>...

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