Mystic-259-print

A good print, but just a little less sharpness and life than the negative scan. I find it difficult to get a good print scan, the actual print always has more life in it than the print scan, more comparable to the negative scan.

There may be some uneven illumination going on; compare the skies in the two pics.

Brendan Quirk said:

A good print, but just a little less sharpness and life than the negative scan. I find it difficult to get a good print scan, the actual print always has more life in it than the print scan, more comparable to the negative scan.

There may be some uneven illumination going on; compare the skies in the two pics.

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I need to tear my enlarger apart and check the alignment. I also had a recent issue with the bulb. Thanks for the feedback.

OK, I totally realign my enlarger, ran some tests and had the same problem. Long story short, it was the bulb. A while back I had the problem and it turned out that the Eiko bulb was losing it's internal frosting. I put in another Eiko bulb I had and the issue was better but not resolved. I ordered a 6-pack of Osram bulbs from B&H and I put one of them in today and the problem seems to be resolved. I'll post this as a new gallery image.