I want to buy an enlarger(condenser)and B/W film to print on color paper to get the sepia effect.(do not want to use the sepia chemical with B/W paper). Can I use fiters to get that sepia effect on colour paper and what will be that or those color filters. Thanks in advance

Mario Cormier CET

-- Mario Cormier CET (mctech@nbnet.nb.ca), May 17, 1998

Answers

This sounds like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

Colour printing requires, as you may know, very strict temperature control, and you can't see what you are doing, because the lights are out. This still applies when you are printing on colour paper from B&W negs. Sepia toning of B&W paper is very much easier.

Of course, you are welcome to try. Standard colour printing practise should give you the filtration requirements pretty quickly (i.e. make a print, view it through filters until it looks right, then apply the opposite filters). I would guess that you reasonable viewing filters would be yellow with a bit of red. So the printing filters would be, umm, cyan with a bit of magenta.

-- Alan Gibson (gibson.al@mail.dec.com), May 22, 1998.