Digital BW, The Print

Kevin,

The speed of the positive is twice as great as the negative. If you expose the positive at ISO 100, expose the negative at ISO 50. You may even have to go lower. Test a bit.

This is the nature of the film. When exposed correctly, though, the type 55 negative is beautiful.

Cheers,
Jeffrey Fass
http://www.happyeyeball.com

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Kevin Gulstene 
  To: digitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2003 12:39 AM
  Subject: [Digital BW] Little OT -- Polaroid 55



  I had hoped to use Polaroid's type 55 film to help me understand 
  portrait lighting.  I have never really done these in a serious way and 
  hoped to use the positive of the film to see the changes immediately as 
  I changed the lighting.

  The problem is that the contrast of the positive is drastically 
  different from the contrast of the negative or any negative film that I 
  shoot.  So what is in the deep shadows on the positive is barely in the 
  shadows on the negative.

  I thought polaroid film was used for proofing all the time -- is type 
  55 wrong for proofing, do people compensate in printing, or was I just 
  off base to start with.

  Thanks,


  --
  Kevin Gulstene


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