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- From: sparks@col.hp.com (John Sparks)
- Subject: Re: colour balance: enlarged vs. contact?
- Sender: news@col.hp.com (Usenet News)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.230510.16024@col.hp.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 23:05:10 GMT
- References: <721809533snx@rats.demon.co.uk>
- Organization: HP Colorado Springs Division
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- In article <721809533snx@rats.demon.co.uk> ian@rats.demon.co.uk ("Ian A. Young") writes:
- >I can't think of a plausible explanation for my observation. The way I
- >see it, the colour balance of the contact print should be exactly the
- >same as that of enlargement:
- >...
- >Someone PLEASE put me out of my misery by thinking of a really good
- >reason why this should be happening...
-
- How about a wild guess. With the enlargement, all of the filtered light
- hitting the paper is going through the negative. With the contact print
- the same light is being spread out over the whole print, but only a
- portion of the light is going through the negative.
-
- Take two different camera filters, say one is blue and one is red of about
- equal intensities, hold them both together right under the enlarger lens,
- you a purple about halfway between the two filters. Next, keep the blue
- one at the lens and move the red one close to the baseboard. The blue is
- spread across the whole baseboard, but the red is concentrated in one spot,
- so where the colors mix, you get a very red purple as opposed to the previous
- color.
-
- > 5. observe that the enlargement is definitely more yellow than
- > the contact print.
-
- In your case, the negative is like one of the filters and the light source
- is like the other. Since the color negative is mostly orange, the contact
- print is seeing much more orange light so I would guess that it would appear
- blue/cyan compared to the enlargement. This seems to agree with what you
- saw.
-
- One experiment to try is to make a 4x5 enlargement (well make a 4x5 print
- with the negative in the enlarger) and a 4x5 contact print, being careful
- to only illuminate the negative. If my guess is correct, they prints will
- be the same color (or at least much closer than the 8x10 print/4x5 contact
- print situation).
-
- John Sparks
-