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Hi, I just tested some Agfa FB VC paper with my newly acquired De Vere enlarger. This enlarger has a diffusion head with color filters. I set the filtration at M30, which would be the equivalent of about a 2.5 filter according to the Agfa flyer in the box. I projected a step tablet, processed it, and read it on a rather old Eseco reflection densitometer that I got on ebay. The result was that the effective paper grade was 1 and the ES was 1.32! I had observed that this enlarger tended to print not very contrasty, but it surprised me that it lengthened the scale of the paper that much. But, maybe I made a mistake? Does that seem really off?
PS I calibrated the densitometer as well as I could. It takes a long time to warm up and read correctly, and even then the numbers jump around a lot.
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