Nic
Hello,
Could it be that if you place the negatives the wrong way round in the negative tray – with the matte side facing upwards, so effectively mirrored – the prints come out with higher contrast?
Why should you even place the negatives with the matte side facing downwards? What are the advantages of this, apart from the image being the right way up?
I’d be grateful if anyone could drop me a line about this
Best regards, Nic
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Tandemfahren
Hi Nic,
Have you tried doing that one at a time under consistent conditions?
I actually used to enlarge images the other way round (I can’t remember why) and I don’t recall any change in contrast. Off the top of my head, I can’t think of a reason for it either.
Best regards from Frankfurt
TR
I can’t think of a reason either. Technically, that can’t be possible. How would you explain it?
If the negative is positioned the wrong way round in the camera, it may be that maximum sharpness cannot be achieved, because the ‘sharp image’ then has to pass through an additional ‘filter’ – the entire film base. However, I’ve only tested this so far on 35mm T-Max: here, the results (flipped / not flipped) were completely identical in terms of sharpness (and contrast). Incidentally, I often flip my prints – for the sake of a certain “visual language”.
