Response to how to evalulateand compare negatives

As Ed Farmer said, the negatives that produce the good prints most easily are generally the ones to go after. One easy thing that you might try is making contact sheets of negatives that that you know print easily, and make others of the negatives in question, using the exact same exposure. You may already be way ahead of me there, but I print the contact sheets so that the film sprocket holes are just _barely_ visible. I have standardized the exposure of these, and it gives me quick feedback on how things are doing with density and contrast.

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