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Jorge Gasteazoro |
17:47 20 Feb 03 |
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Phil |
18:28 20 Feb 03 |
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Jorge Gasteazoro |
20:22 20 Feb 03 |
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David Mark |
9:52 22 Jan 03 |
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Jorge Gasteazoro |
0:04 2 Mar 03 |
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clay |
15:05 21 Jan 03 |
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Phil |
8:00 22 Jan 03 |
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Jorge Gasteazoro |
17:50 20 Feb 03 |
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Minimum printing exposure and BTZS |
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David Mark |
8:43 14 Jan 03 |
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When I first started shooting black and white landscapes, I learned, at a local photography school, a simplified version of Adams's original Zone System. The only means we had of checking the correctness of our development times was the minimum printing exposure test. We would determine the enlarger exposure that would be just enough to print maximum black through a clear part of the developed negative. We would then print the test negatives at that exposure in order to see whether exposure and development had put our Zone III's and VII's in the right place.
Am I right in thinking that negatives produced with the BTZS approach should print correctly at MPE? If so, is the MPE test a useful final check on the quality of the negatives that we produce with the BTZS system?
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Phil |
10:38 14 Jan 03 |
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