I think the direction is getting a little clearer now

Looking at my personal processing/printing history
(specifically, the characteristics of negs developed differently over time)
it would seem that one might develop for a slightly higher contrast for
contact printing than currently done for enlarging?

I saw this from some 35mm b&w shot last fall @ Pittsburgh @ the Cub game.
Lots of contrast -- bright lights, dim field & players.
The contacts look great (in fact, really pretty, brilliant, contrasty)
but I can't for the life of me get a decent print, even a small 5x7, out of 'em.

It seems the discussion of 8x10 contact printing frequently revolves around
getting this characteristic (as I see it) through exposing that one extra
stop -- like treating the Bergger as iso100 instead of iso200.

Is this a valid direction to pursue to improve my 8x10 results?
Or am I mis-perceiving some apparent assumptions?

(I think the learing curve is worse than film curves!)

TIA,

Collin

It seems the discussion of 8x10 contact printing frequently revolves around
getting this characteristic (as I see it) through exposing that one extra
stop -- like treating the Bergger as iso100 instead of iso200.

Is this a valid direction to pursue to improve my 8x10 results?
Or am I mis-perceiving some apparent
assumptions?

I expose and process the same for enlarging and contact printing assuming I am
using the same priting paper.

steve simmons