[filmscanners] Re: SS4000 again

["Tony Sleep" <TonySleep@halftone.co.uk>]

Bob Frost wrote:

> Thanks for bringing me up-to-date - I did say my 'knowledge' was of light
> microscopy many years ago. ;)

Mine's mostly from enlargers, many years ago:)  All I can say is that I
bought a condenser head for a Durst which  already had  a diffuser
head, because I wanted sharper,  contrastier, as alleged. And I was miffed
to find that, apart from being  almost exactly one paper grade contrastier
I could see no difference. If I used a harder grade with the diffuser head,
I could see no benefit at all from the condenser head even using a
magnifier. All I could see was marginally more blown extreme highlights,
already a problem with the (then new) straightline  films like TMax, more
scratches and marks. The  condenser head went back in its box and stayed
there.

Regards

Tony Sleep - http://www.halftone.co.uk
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