Article · Master Printer (Substack)
Evaluating Negatives
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free + paid
- Published
- 2025
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About this lesson
A professional darkroom printer teaches how to read a black-and-white negative before it ever reaches the enlarger: identifying under- and over-exposure and over-development by density and contrast, and using a grade-2 test strip as a baseline before committing to a full print.
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