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First colour prints!
For some time I've been gathering equipment together for colour printing. I certainly shan't be giving up monochrome, but to my mind there are times where colour is called for.
It's quite a squeeze to house both colour and B&W equipment in my tiny darkroom, but it does just about work out!. I swapped the Durst enlarger for an LPL7700, and refurbished a Nova vertical print processor which now sits alongside the enlarger. So finally this weekend I filled the Nova tank with Tetenal RA-4 chemicals, and set to with a box of Fuji Crystal archive paper and a set of Kodak viewing filters. To my surprise it all went well, the first test print had a visible but deep blue image, and three prints later I had a fairly good result. Today I was able to use almost the same filtration with other negatives, and with the benefit of daylight, could more easily refine the colour - see below printed from Fuji Pro400h film. There are a few practical details to sort out; too much light from the enlarger dials, plus some very bright luminous markers stuck to the nova tank. I don't have a safelight yet, but I think a small LED unit would be more than adequate, and a great help in finding the processing slots! |
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Your print looks great!
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nice one that's a great print ,and you will have to post some more
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The print looks very good. If you think you may do a lot of RA4 stuff I'd consider a DUKA lamp. This will give an amazing amount of safelight which should light the Nova sufficiently and allow you to remove the luminous markers. These may be OK if the exposed print simply passes over them quickly but I had one near my easel in the early days of RA4 and got a small magenta square where the paper had been.
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That is very good. Better than my 1st attempts some 27 years ago. no sign of colour imbalance and just the right depth of tons as well (The composition ain't bad either)
I have mentioned a DUKA to you as well - they are for me absolutely essential. If you do go down that route be aware they are quite powerful and in a small darkroom like yours they need to be turned down on the scale to around 10. The scale is a sliding adjuster on the upper edge close to the filter cover. If too much light gets out you will get an impossible to remove cyan cast., Last edited by John King; 22nd May 2017 at 06:59 AM. |
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Well done, I had a dabble with colour printing a couple of years ago, I enjoyed it and I will do it again. I marked my slot processor with dots of glow in the dark nail varnish that I purchased when it was halloween. I also clipped two square plastic clothes pegs on to the outside of the first slot so I could find it easily.
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That is a wonderful looking print. Good for you
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Nice one, Edmund!
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Impressive. Nice shot, well worked.
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Thanks for all your encouraging replies, I'll post more scans when I get a moment. It was all a lot more straightforward than I expected, I was mystified by written descriptions about colour correction until I actually tried it. One point I am not clear about though, is how to determine the likely change in exposure time due to changes in filtration.
How large are the DUKA lamps? - I don't have much space left! |
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