Sorry, in the above reply, everything which I had put in brackets vanished from the screen. What I wanted to ask was whether using a spotmeter, such as a Minolta spotmeter f (supposed to be accurate to one tenth of an EV, and measuring(posted 8856 days ago)The EV for the light table with no film
divided by
The EV for part of the negative whose density I am looking for
And then taking the logarithm for that, would give me the density for that part of the negative. Would that work? Thanks a lot for all of your suggestions, its great to have such a forum. Raja