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Old 1st September 2014, 09:36 AM
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Well I've picked another neg this afternoon and I'm starting to think maybe my 0 grade which is supposed to be 90-Y and nothing else with this enlarger, is not the grade 0 an under the lens filter would be.
Exposure times are just too damn short, 2 seconds is too long, whilst it might be possible to get a near exposure using fractions of a second, it does nothing to hide the suggestion that something isn't right.
I'll check out the other methods of split grade printing but it seems I ought to make sure I'm playing with a full deck before trying any of them.

thanks guys..
I understand you use an LPL enlarger for your split grade printing. You are right 90 yellow is not zero you need 150 yellow and 25 magenta and zero for the other colour.

I do my grade zero test strips at five second intervals that are marked with a pencil and my grade five at two second intervals, I have found that these need marking more so than the first lot.

I have followed Les is article and do not have any problems. I don't usually do this here is a link to a blog I wrote after using Les is method.
http://photomi7ch.blogspot.co.uk/201...rinting_2.html
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