I have a Durst 138 colour head. It has a cold light fitted, I have been told multigrade paper doesn't work with a cold light is this true. If this is true I will need to get some condensers, which brings me to the next question what condensers do I need to suit the lens I use 50mm, 150mm and 210mm.

-- Craig Halford (craighalford@vema.com.au), May 29, 2002

Answers

Multicontrast paper works fine with cold light. The net effect is that you must print with a lower contrast filter. My experience suggests one grade less. So a neg that might ordinarily use a #2 filter will print with a #1. I have tried using a CP40Y gel filter in the head to compensate for the "blue" color of the cold light but it turned out to be unnecessary- and it increased printing times. Try it and see what you get. I think condensers increase highlight contrast excessively, myself.

-- Mark Sampson (MSampson45@aol.com), June 04, 2002.

Hi there

I guess if you are using a color head the question on multigrade filter doesn't arise.

Your color head would have cyan, magenta, yellow filters right?

Forget cyan and use the rest of them.

Thanks

-- middle (middlegray@hotmail.com), June 04, 2002.