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title: NOTES ON OPTICAL PRINTER TECHNIQUE
author: Dennis Couzin
date: "March 1983"
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| Magnification      | 1 | Fades in Original            | 14 |
| Blowup & Reduction | 2 | Chart C: Neutral Density     |    |
| Blowup Sharpness   | 2 |   and Equivalent Shutter     |    |
| Printer Lenses     | 3 |                    Angle     | 15 |
| Optical Zoom       | 3 | Image Superposition          | 16 |
| Lens Aperture      | 3 | Gamma & Bipack               | 16 |
| Focusing           | 4 | Incidentally                 | 16 |
| Focusing Aperture  | 4 | Exposure Compensation        | 18 |
| Focusing Precision | 4 | Special Originals            | 18 |
| Focusing Target    | 4 | Texturing                    | 18 |
| Depth of Field     | 4 | Multi-Exposure               | 19 |
| Bolex Prism        | 4 | Multi-Pack                   | 19 |
| Bolex Groundglass  | 4 | Natural Superposition        | 19 |
| Defocus            | 4 | Flashing                     | 19 |
| X-Y Adjustment     | 4 | Contrast Adjustment          | 19 |
| Exact 1:1          | 5 | Color Image Superposition    | 20 |
| Aimframe           | 5 | Weighted Double Exposures    | 20 |
| Framelines         | 6 | Dissolves                    | 21 |
| Emulsion Position  | 7 | Effects Dissolves            | 21 |
| Time               | 8 | Fades from Negative          | 21 |
| Fancy Freeze       | 8 | Color Exposure               | 22 |
| Fancy Slow         | 8 | Testing                      | 22 |
| Diffusers          | 8 | CC Pack Reduction            | 25 |
| UV Filter          | 9 | High Contrast Prints         | 25 |
| IR Filter          | 9 | Hicon Exposure               | 26 |
| Green Filter       | 3 | Contrast Building Steps      | 26 |
| Filter Location    | 9 | Hicon Speckle                | 26 |
| Exposure           | 9 | Tone Isolation               | 27 |
| Exposure Adjusters | 9 | Logic of Mask Combination    | 27 |
| Specifying Exposure | 11 | Image Spread and Bloom     | 27 |
| Film Speed          | 11 | Mask and Countermask       | 28 |
| Right Exposure      | 11 | Reversal/Negative Fitting  | 28 |
| Generations         | 12 | Feathered Maska            | 29 |
| Bellows Formula     | 13 | Image Marriage             | 29 |
| Fades               | 13 | Mask Blackness             | 30 |
| Log Fade            | 14 | Hicona from Color Originals| 30 |
| Bolex Variable Shutter | 14 | Hicon Processing        | 30 |
| Linear Fade            | 14 | Optical Printed Release Prints | 31 |
| Other Fades            | 14 | Ritual and Art          | 31 |
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