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Re: [Digital BW] Can a Color densitometer be used for B&W?

2004-09-27 by koloshor

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul D. DeRocco" <pderocco@i...> wrote:
> > From: Austin Franklin [mailto:austin@d...]
> >
> > What "color" is the
> > 4th layer of the Fuji Press "4th layer" films?  Do you have any
> > knowledge of
> > that?  I have not tried scanning that film yet, but it is great for "mixed
> > lighting", in other words, incandescents and fluorescents etc. without the
> > yellow cast, and the prints come out great.
> 
> Dunno. Hadn't even heard of it. I wonder if it's a black layer...

If memory serves, it's sensitive to a color between green and blue, and develops a dombination of magenta and ywllow dye, favoring the magenta. So the negative still ends up containing three dyes, cyan, magenta, and yellow.

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