Ilford Multigrade IV vs. Kentmere Fineprint?

"Nicholas O. Lindan" wrote in message
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"Keith Tapscott." wrote

(And even easier with an f-stop timer) Perhaps, but I already have a
good enlarger timer.

If you set it in seconds then it is the wrong sort of timer.

Just because one grew up with a concept doesn't mean a bloody
thing if the concept is wrong: The Earth is flat and the
center of the universe - the planets are in orbit about it;
Tossing virgins into the volcano keeps it from erupting;
Smelly air causes yellow fever; Grain spontaneously generates
mice; Violets keep away the plague; Enlargers are
controlled in seconds.

ASA dial: 1 click = 1 stop (well, 1/3 of a stop)
Shutter speed dial: 1 click = 1 stop
Camera apertu 1 click = 1 stop
Enlarger apertu 1 click = 1 stop
Enlarger timer: 1 click = fill in the blank with the logical answer

People buy f-Stop timers and they never go back. There
is a reason, and it isn't hard to figure out: the timer
is designed for controlling _exposure_. Gralabs were designed
to control bread ovens and tire vulcanizers.

--
Nicholas O. Lindan, Cleveland, Ohio
Darkroom Automation: F-Stop Timers, Enlarging Meters
http://www.darkroomautomation.com/index2.htm
n o lindan at ix dot netcom dot com

Oh I so love your prose. made more pertinent by it's very logic.

With today's ever accelerating knowledge (not necessarily the use of) It is
hard to grasp how we ever got out of the dark ages. Just think, if the plebs
had been encouraged to read, oh what blasphemy, technology would have been
short circuited by hundreds of years. Just think Kublai Kahn massing his
troops by mobile phone, or Ahab over seeing the development of the Suez
Canal with a laptop on the back of a camel. Mmm, just like the do now.

--Otzi