you also need to check what grade paper you are using. i forgot those things now - i used to do lot of b&w printing some 15 years back, however, one thing is sure - you change the grade of paper, you get totally different picture. grade of paper, dilution of chemistry, freshness of chemistry ... all count.
some points from my side. anand >From: "RH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: BW Developers-Grain differences >Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 23:57:13 -0400 > >Hi all, >I have a question for all of you B/W chemical experts. I am printing >pictures >at home and at school using enlargers both with 50mm lenses. At home I use >ilford universal paper developer and at school they use some kind of kodak >developer. > >Now,I printed some pictures at home of the same negative I used at school >and >there is noticeably more grain in the picture. Will different developers do >this? Is ilford a large grain developer or something? Could it have >anything >to do with the enlarger, at school I have a much larger one, but when >focused >on my 8x10 paper, both my one at home and the one at school are roughly the >same height off of the paper. > >Any ideas? >- >This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, >go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to >visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
