As a follow on from my previous thread I just made my first print on the Durst m301 colour.
Semi successfully. I did not have any paper developer and couldn’t wait to try it out so I used a 1:50 rodinal dilution that seemed to work fairly well.
It’s been 6-7 years since I last made any prints with another durst I had, the m605, and it took me a very long time to make any progress. 1hr 30 and probably 10 sheets of 5x7 paper.
I think I will have to invest in some under the lens filters though. Either I’ve forgotten how long it takes to expose a print or the m301 colour head doesn’t give out a lot of contrast but this was made with the magenta and yellow colours maxed out at a time of 40sec. I wanted to try to do split grading but that went out the window fast. I’m going to buy a lot of 5x7 paper and go back to this print and try split grading again to get a feel for the colour head before I look into filters though. It’s just a shame the numbers on the head don’t relate to the ilford contrast filter table. Would make following tutorials a lot easier
Semi successfully. I did not have any paper developer and couldn’t wait to try it out so I used a 1:50 rodinal dilution that seemed to work fairly well.
It’s been 6-7 years since I last made any prints with another durst I had, the m605, and it took me a very long time to make any progress. 1hr 30 and probably 10 sheets of 5x7 paper.
I think I will have to invest in some under the lens filters though. Either I’ve forgotten how long it takes to expose a print or the m301 colour head doesn’t give out a lot of contrast but this was made with the magenta and yellow colours maxed out at a time of 40sec. I wanted to try to do split grading but that went out the window fast. I’m going to buy a lot of 5x7 paper and go back to this print and try split grading again to get a feel for the colour head before I look into filters though. It’s just a shame the numbers on the head don’t relate to the ilford contrast filter table. Would make following tutorials a lot easier
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