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Old 17th December 2008, 03:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Trevor Crone View Post
Thanks Les, great article. I really must get one of Richard's paper flashers. Removing the negative carrier+negative each time can be a bit of a pain.
Trevor,

Not to take anything away from the RH Designs product (I love my Stop Clock Pro), but until you get one of their flashers you can do flashing without removing the negative and carrier. I used to do about 500 custom B&W prints weekly in a small lab, and found it necessary to use flashing to get my best work out. I used a piece of 1/16 inch thick translucent milky/opal perspex over the enlarging lens at a percentage of the full exposure. In my case that worked out to about 20% of the overall exposure on a very consistent basis. I had to work fast, so had no time for a lot of fine tuning, but this approach allowed me to get the work out at higher quality and in good time. No doubt an enlarging meter would have helped for fine tuning the flash, but I had none to hand.

The RH Designs Flasher will no doubt be easier to calibrate.

Lee
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