Zone 8 developing test.

[thefizz]

Am I correct in saying I do not need to do this test for every paper & paper developer I use?

Thanks,
Peter

 

[David A. Goldfarb]

Depends on how varied the materials you use are and how precisely you want to target your negatives to your print medium.

If you variously contact print on Azo, enlarge with a condensor enlarger on another paper, and make pt/pd prints, then you'll get the best results by figuring out how to target your negs to each of those media. Pyro might let you compromise and get a multi-use negative.

If you're printing on two or three different enlarging papers, then you probably don't need to target so precisely, particularly if you consider that you may want to reprint negatives over the course of years and you don't know what sorts of paper will exist in the future.

 

[thefizz]

Thank you David.