Re: ilfochrome filtration

From: Chris Peregoy <peregoy_at_domain.name.suppressed>
Date: Wed 11 Oct 2000 - 07:05:07 PDT

I did a few 8x10 ciba pinholes a few years ago and found that in addition to
the 85 filter I had to use a UV filter too. I found there to be too much UV
light affecting my color balance, perhaps because there was no glass to block
that type of light.

Mike Keller wrote:

> What filtration do you expect to need with Ilfochrome? It's
> tungsten-balanced, so you'd need a daylight-to-tungsten filter to shoot
> outdoors. Any other filter pack would vary as you open a new pack of paper.
> I took a class at Penland some years ago, printing (then) Cibachrome, and an
> Ilford tech rep taught the class. He brought a processor for us to use, and
> he spent some time shooting Ciba in an 11x14 field camera, and the orange
> filter was all he used.
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