----- Original Message ----- From: "Shel Belinkoff"
Subject: Re: Taking, Making, Creating Images
Well, maybe I should amend that statement. It is difficult in that you
have to pay careful attention to details, such as times, temperature,
agitation, enlarger setup, chemical strength, and a myriad of other things.
But it is doable if you've got the temperament and the technique.
Until you buy a new box of paper and find that it isn't the same as the last one, even though it is marked the same, or your print lamp has changed slightly in the last few weeks, or your filterpack isn't exactly the same as it was last year, or the temperature of your darkroom, and hence the activity of your developer isn't quite the same as it was, or the PH of your tap water has altered slightly.
Sadly, the world isn't quite as ideal as I would like it to be, and all of these very minor and impossible to control things can have a marked effect on the repeatability of a print.
William Robb
