Well...I sympathize with the OP and I'll chime in having had the RH Designs Analyzer Pro for one day now.I have an enlarger attachment in a Gossen Lunasix light meter, but found it mostly useless as I have to make test strips anyway for fine tunning. Something as the RH designs f-stop timer would be great,
Cheers,
Renato
Hi Sam,
Here is the instruction sheet for the Ilford EM-10. You might be able to do something with it.
Good luck,
Neal Wydra
Well...I sympathize with the OP and I'll chime in having had the RH Designs Analyzer Pro for one day now.
It's awesome. Click-measure-shadow.....click-measure-highlight...print.
No test strips necessary to get to a VERY GOOD print (without fine tuning if you choose to) and burning is a breeze also.
I know it's expensive but for what paper costs these days, it will pay for itself in a year or two.
Yes...it is a bit but considering what I've spent in test strip paper in the last year, it's going to pay for itself in about 2 years...then it's gravy from then on.Thank you, the Ilford EM-10 looks like a handy tool. But I can't convert the Information given by the instruction sheet to work with my light meter.
That thing looks awesome! Awesome and expensive.
I might consider buying something like that in the future, but since I'm currently a student my budget for awesome photo-gear is limited.
That's why I'm looking for a way to use my light meter. I figured, since it can read the light in incident and reflected both shown in EV, there gotta be a way to use it for printing. But maybe I'm wrong...
Thank you and Cheers
Sam
Yes...it is a bit but considering what I've spent in test strip paper in the last year, it's going to pay for itself in about 2 years...then it's gravy from then on.
I don't think that there is a way to use a regular light meter for what you want, the only cheap alternative is that ilford meter thing and I think that only gets you close, you still have to use test strips to fine tune.
You don't need to use your light meter if you have the EM10.Thank you, the Ilford EM-10 looks like a handy tool. But I can't convert the Information given by the instruction sheet to work with my light meter.
That thing looks awesome! Awesome and expensive.
I might consider buying something like that in the future, but since I'm currently a student my budget for awesome photo-gear is limited.
That's why I'm looking for a way to use my light meter. I figured, since it can read the light in incident and reflected both shown in EV, there gotta be a way to use it for printing. But maybe I'm wrong...
Thank you and Cheers
Sam
The Ilford EM-10 works quite well. I have one.Here is the instruction sheet for the Ilford EM-10. You might be able to do something with it.
Hi Sam,Thank you, the Ilford EM-10 looks like a handy tool.
But I can't convert the Information given by the instruction sheet to work with my light meter.
That is exactly what the Ilford EM-10 does.The more accurate is to take a reading of a highlight that has texture.
It's a lot easier, faster, and cheaper just to do simple test strips. Yeah, I do own several enlarging meters, including a very expensive, rare true projection densitometer that is about a hundred times more accurate than any typical light meter, and useful at far lower ranges than they are. But I only use that for very special technical applications. Ordinary light meters aren't going to be very useful for darkroom printing. Yeah, you can find
countless articles and posts about someone jerry-rigging these for enlarger use; but it reminds me of those old Popular Mechanics how-to articles explaining how you can make your own nuclear submarine using recycled washing machine parts.
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