The Variable Contrast Printing Manual
by Steve Anchell

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Book Review: Substance and Clarity
Summary: 4 Stars

The author touches on how and why various approaches to Variable Contrast work and why you need to know. He compares the most readily available materials and suggests where they should be used.

He gives some direct and pragmatic recommendations about development and fixing. He also presents some practical examples of how to use multiple filter techniques where appropriate. He discusses pre-exposure and some other tried and true techniques that help manage contrast.

This book is a very good top-down, goal oriented approach. It is easy to read and remember because it never gets wound up in technique for its own sake.

If you are already competent this book will keep you moving in the right direction. If you are not yet competent you will have no excuses after you read this book.

This author needs a better publisher. I'd like to have an edition with test negatives and a coupon for a discount on the next edition. A better publisher could make this book a classic, must have.

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