Response to want advice on buying a denistometer

David, Conrad is correct. You don't need a densitometer to calibrate your negatives and printing. A good denistometer is expensive, and a poor one isn't worth spit. If you want it to do both transmission and reflected measurement, and do them well, it will be in the thousands of dollars. Further, you can't just buy one, turn it on, put a print or negative on it and get results that mean anything. You have to learn both technique and theory to get results and interpret them properly. True, there are conditions where a good densitometer is worth its weight in platinum, but for 99.9999% of home and commercial work, it isn't worth it. Pure overkill. There is lots of help available in getting your processes and prints where you want them. Lots of books starting with gool ol' AA, and going to Z??. If I had the price of a good densitometer, I would spendi it on better lenses, or lighting or other more productive photo uses. Or maybe even pay some bills.....

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