For Enlarging Meter Users: Split Grade Application Note

[Nicholas Lindan]

There is a new application note for split grade printing with the Darkroom Automation Precision Enlarging Meter available on the DA web site support files section:

http://www.darkroomautomation.com/support/appnotesgmeasured.pdf

 

[Pinholemaster]

You can see the same results with a test strip. Far cheaper, and no need for graphs, charts or math.

But then I guess I take all the fun out of printing, don't I? Grin.

 

[Nicholas Lindan]

You can see the same results with a test strip.

Takes longer, less accurate, wastes materials, lacks insight.

Do you use a meter when you expose film? So what's the objection to using one when printing?

I regularly buy stacks of old photography magazines - 1930's to 1950's - and in those magazines the same sort of response greeted the idea of using an 'electric exposure meter' when taking pictures: "Useless waste of money".

Now, if I just have the patience to wait another 50 years...

 

[Pinholemaster]

How does a machine have insight?

The human mind has insight.

My camera meter does not. All a meter tells me is the correct f/stop and shutter speed to use to make a white wall 18% gray, or a black wall 18% gray, or anything 18% gray.

I assure you the college students I teach haven't a clue what 18% gray is or how a meter works until I teach them how to use their mind to interpret the results.

Please explain what is accuracy in art?

If you didn't regularly buy out-of-date magazines, you'd have the money for test strips! Grin.

 

[Nicholas Lindan]

How does a machine have insight?

Mr. Pinhole Python: Hello, I'd like to buy an argument, please.
....
http://wuzzle.org/argument.html


This correspondence is closed.