eilert anders wrote:(posted 8781 days ago)>Kim, the development times suggested in the Kodak literature are for >negatives that are to be printed with enlargers that have a diffusion >light source.
i had NO idea this is the case (though perhaps i should have figured it out). thanks for telling me!
>Negatives that are to be printed with an enlarger that >has a condenser light source require a less dense negative, and so >Kodak recommends 20% less development time than what is listed in >their tables. I have found their recommendeed times are right on the >money for diffusion light source enlargers.
ah...that explains it, then. i'm a newbie at developing/printing (made my first print last november 14), so i'm still finding my way on even the basics. fortunately, i've been able to make some prints that please me very much, but as i read what your reply to my question, i see now why my negs seems so dense. they're very definitely printable (including the shadow areas), but i see now that i should indeed be reducing the time.
>Your best option, if your current negatives print OK, is to adjust >the development time with XTOL to the same extent (%) as you have >diverged from the Kodak recomended time for D76.
will do. thanks again (to both you and david) for your reply. i tried writing you an email offline, but the message kept coming back as undeliverable--hence my reply to the list.
kim