Analyzer pro dodging and burning question

Dwayne Martin · Dec 19, 2021

Does anybody out there have any experience dodging and burning with the analyzer pro? The problem I’m having is dodging while the analyzer uses the blue light. It seems the photographs I’m more likely to need to dodge some thing are the ones that require a high contrast grade setting. In this case the analyzer uses blue light almost exclusively and it’s nearly impossible to see the image for any sort of accurate dodging. Has anybody overcome this problem?

Dwayne Martin · Dec 19, 2021

I should have pointed out that I’m using the Ilford 500 head with the analyzer that’s dedicated for that machine only.

Sirius Glass · Dec 19, 2021

I first get the blue light exposure correctly printed and then I work on the green light exposure.

Dwayne Martin · Dec 19, 2021

Sirius Glass said:
I first get the blue light exposure correctly printed and then I work on the green light exposure.

I’m curious how you control this? My analyzer starts with the green light and then moves to blue light. On a high grade setting like grade 4, the green light may only last for two or three seconds.

Sirius Glass · Dec 19, 2021

I have not mastered the use of an analyzer. Instead I look to split grade printing. My problem with the analyzer is that I have to have good black & white and color prints to start the analysis and I never got there because I got diverted long ago.

Nicholas Lindan · Dec 19, 2021

Ilford 400 series heads had yellow and magenta filters instead of green and blue. Since yellow and magenta have a red component to them the light appears brighter and makes it easier to see where you are when dodging.

I don't know the reason for the change to green & blue filters in the 500.

Ilford went back to yellow, magenta & white in the 600.

MattKing · Dec 19, 2021

In fact, the very first version of the 500 series heads also used yellow and magenta. I don't think there are many of those still around.
My impression is that the green and blue approach gave slightly more range to the contrast available.

Dwayne Martin · Dec 19, 2021

MattKing said:
In fact, the very first version of the 500 series heads also used yellow and magenta. I don't think there are many of those still around.
My impression is that the green and blue approach gave slightly more range to the contrast available.

I actually have the 400 head and when it comes to straight printing I really miss it. I could see what I was doing. I think the lamp housings are the same. I wonder if I could install those yellow&magenta filters in the 500 head? That would be interesting it worked. I would have to recalibrate my analyzer I’m sure.

The 500 head original controller mixed the light from both bulbs but the analyzer uses one color for a period of time then the other for the remainder of the exposure. I assume the problem I’m having wouldn’t be nearly as bad if the light was mixed. At a smallish aperture and a high contrast grade the blue light gets dimes to a faint violet color and you can’t make out any detail of the image.

MattKing · Dec 19, 2021

Are you turning your safelight off during the exposure?

Sirius Glass · Dec 19, 2021

MattKing said:
Are you turning your safelight off during the exposure?

Also after you have completed the focusing, stop down the lens.

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