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From: eric@rtech.ARPA (Eric Lundblad)
Newsgroups: net.rec.photo
Subject: Re: darkroom paper
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Date: Wed, 8-May-85 16:36:45 EDT
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> > I too use the method of printing first on an RC paper before going with
> > a fiber paper. Not only is it easier, but it is cheaper as well.
> >   Marty Sasaki			net:   sasaki@harvard.{arpa,uucp}
> 
> I don't understand how you can "learn" to print a negative on RC and then
> print it on fiber paper.  The different papers have different
> characteristics and will not at all give the same results.  As soon as you
> get the print you want on RC (if that is possible), you will not get the
> same on fiber paper.
> 
> Herb Barad	[USC - Signal and Image Processing Institute]

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	For me, learning to print a negative is not as much a matter of figuring
out how long to leave it under the enlarger and in the developer. Instead, 
learning a negative involves deciding what values are pleasing for that image.
Although I use fiber paper exclusively because I think it is better for fine
images (which is not to say that I produce any :-)), I can see the argument 
for using RC paper in the early stages. On the
other hand, if, as you say, fiber paper can be had for as little a RC paper,
then why not use fiber? I don't buy the time to process fiber argument, since
fiber can be processed in a marginally greater time than RC. (I do an initial
3 minute fix alone, and a final 3 minute fix with all photos together, as per
Ansel Adams suggestion).

	Is my stand sufficently confusing?
-- 

			Eric Lundblad