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Hi Terry,
I picked up the meter almost by accident in a job lot of darkroom kit. As you'll know, it works by holding a diffusing filter between the image and the meter. This 'fuzzes out' the image so that a kind of averaged out illumination falls on the meter's photo-cell. I am happy to use it on an image with many mid-tones, and no extreme contrast, because the 'fuzzed out' image will include a good representative selection of tones. If a negative is high contrast, or very High-key or very Low-key there's a chance the main subject won't actually correspond to the average tonal value of the whole neg. An image like this would work with the meter: http://www.film-and-darkroom-user.or...php/photo/2463 Lots of mid-tones. This I'd see as an 'easy' negative. This: http://www.film-and-darkroom-user.or...php/photo/2038 Would tend to confuse the simple Paterson meter. The rocks need to be nearly black, but the meter would want to reproduce them more as a mid-grey and print too light. Again, this: http://www.film-and-darkroom-user.or...pictureid=3578 Would fox the Paterson, which would want to print the image down to a rarker grey tone. So, nothing like as versatile as an analyser, but if I had a dozen shots on the same film, taken under soft illumination I'd happily use the Paterson meter as a short-cut to save test-strips and a bit of time. |
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Thanks for the info Richard and Skellum.
When I have a bit of time to experiment, I'll get my Paterson meter out and see how it fares against my RH Designs meter. Terry S |
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It has been many years since I last used one,but they actualy worked pretty well very simple idea that, as with most Paterson ideas of the time just worked, could give you a print without teststrips,, not a useful as the Analyser/pro, but allowing for inflation the Paterson meter would be around £50 today compared to over £300 for the analyser
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Yes Photomi7Ch, it was a video about this new Ilford paper, the new Portfolio release, that prompted me to post the original question. The guy on it said that he could print on RC, then use the same settings for the Portfolio.
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