Digital BW, The Print

Hi Steve



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "steve_bye" 
<steve_bye@c...> wrote:
> I have used Pictorico Hi-Gloss White Film, as Dan Buckholder 
suggests, to
> create 8x10 negatives and have been quite successful printing 
them. 
> The printing times are long - a couple minutes at F2.8 for about 
11x14
> coverage. I think the contrast is very good, though. The trick was 
making
> sure that the printing time was long enough for the print to have 
a really
> black Dmax, but no longer.

I realized fairly quickly that I could get a decent print out of the 
white film, but the exposure times were so long with VC paper that 
trying to print Liquid Light that way was going to test my patience. 
And right now putting out a new batch of the LL prints is the only 
thing that could get me back into the chemistry. Tomorrow I'll coat 
a batch of paper and see if I really can get the contrast I need out 
of an 8x10 digital neg on Liquid Light. Should be interesting.
> 
> The real question is "is all this effort worth it?" I have decided 
that I
> will only use interneg's if I need the absolute blackest blacks, 
or need
> glossies without bronzing. The QTR prints look awfully good, and 
are
> painless.
> 
> Steve Bye
> 
The best way to get blackest blacks and glossies without bronzing is 
to find the right way to apply (a hopefully soon improved version 
of) the MIS gloss optimizer. You won't find yourself missing a good 
Dmax if we can get that working properly.