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Re: [Digital BW] Re: Scanning for print size - Pyro

2002-04-07 by Todd Flashner

on 4/7/02 4:19 PM, Martin Wesley wrote:

> The staining occurs in direct proportion to the silver development. You can
> actually take a pyro developed neg, bleach all the silver out of it and
> print from image recorded by the grainless staining process. Practically
> this does not appear to improve print quality so it isn't done.

So the dense areas get more stain than the thin areas, increasing contrast?
 
> So I guess the granularity, i.e. noise, goes to zero and the dynamic range
> is infinite. <G>

LOL

Todd

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