Digital BW, The Print

> Austin,
>
> I am not sure I have much to add at this point. Still mulling things over.
> Charles Francis wrote me off list and brought up the term "internal
> contrast(s)" which I am familiar with. Sometime just thought of as "local
> contrast". This can be a problem in prints where the overall contrast
> balances out nicely in the print but there will be some area
> typically with
> fine detail of interest that covers just a tiny portion of the
> density range
> and winds up looking like mud. This seems to be a common problem with
> contracted developments where there has been a strong compression of tone
> from the scene to the negative. Is this in anyway related to what
> you see in
> the quality of the tonality of the print?
>
> Martin

Hi Martin,

Yes, I believe is a related and important issue, and I can think of how to
interrelate it, but I'm a bit tired to try to do it now ;-)

Regards,

Austin