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- From: gmayhew@sven.lerc.nasa.gov (George Mayhew)
- Subject: Re: colour balance: enlarged vs. contact?
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 20:03:16 GMT
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- In article <721809533snx@rats.demon.co.uk> ian@rats.demon.co.uk ("Ian A. Young") writes:
- >I just performed the following experiment:
- >
- > 1. take a 5x4 colour negative (on VPS, if it matters)
- >
- > 2. expose a 10x8 print and hide it away
- >
- > 3. remove the negative from the enlarger and place it on another
- > 10x8 piece of paper. Expose it under the same filtration for the
- > same time as the print in 2.
- >
- > 4. put both 10x8s in a drum processor and process them together.
- >
- > 5. observe that the enlargement is definitely more yellow than
- > the contact print.
- >
- >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:
- >
- > in the enlargement, the light from the bulb goes through the filters
- > in the enlarger, then through the negative, then through the lens and
- > finally to the paper
- >
- > in the contact, the light from the bulb goes through the filters in
- > the enlarger, then through the lens, then through the negative, then
- > to the paper.
- >
- >I figure that this should give me an A(B(C(D))) == B(A(C(D))) kind of
- >situation, where D is the original light and the functions represent the
- >various things you put in its path. The only way I can think of to make
- >these come out different is if either the negative or the lens have a
- >non-linear response to different intensities of light, which I find hard
- >to believe (the enlarger is a diffusion type, so I'm discounting the
- >Callier effect as well).
- >
- >Someone PLEASE put me out of my misery by thinking of a really good
- >reason why this should be happening...
- >
- One possibility is that another light source is illuminating the paper.
- This could be a safe light, or reflections off walls, enlarger column,
- etc. In the case of the enlarged print, this light would fall directly
- on the paper. In the contact print case, the extraneous light would
- be filtered through the negative.
-
- George
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