I have been out of the dark room for six years! Can not remember what f-stop and time to make the expose the neg. Thanks Mike

-- Mike Hindman (mh9@gte.net), October 20, 1999

Answers

There is no correct time. Do a strip test at various times, until you find one that works best, then dodge and burn those that are too light or too dark, as necessary.

-- Ed Buffaloe (edbuffaloe@unblinkingeye.com), October 20, 1999.

If you want the contact sheet to show how well your film exposure and development match the paper you are using, expose the contact sheet to get the clear film edges to where they just match the black areas adjacent to the film strip. The images should match very closely to what you will get when enlarging through a cold light enlarger. Condenser enlargers will add some contrast in the high values.

-- Tony Brent (ajbrent@mich.com), October 20, 1999.

Buy a book on printing. James

-- james (james_mickelson@hotmail.com), October 21, 1999.

As mentioned above, doing a test strip to get to black on the film borders (but no more!) gives you the best information. A complete discussion of this, and testing film for correct exposure values, is HERE...

http://www.wenet.net/~halfhill/archive.html

I recommend that you go through these processes carefully. For me, they cleared up some doubts, and made it much easier to produce easy-to-print negatives.

-- Paul Harris (pharris@neosoft.com), October 21, 1999.

Thank's for the information. Mike

-- Mike Hindman (mh9@gte.net), October 23, 1999.