The original Portriga was IMHO one of the most beautiful papers ever. ________________________________ From: Richard Knoppow <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thu, January 27, 2011 9:45:35 PM Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Oh How I Miss This Paper ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Daneliuk" <tundra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 12:26 PM Subject: [pure-silver] Oh How I Miss This Paper > I managed to get some new old stock Agfa Brovira BEH 111 paper > recently when someone closed down their darkroom. I made a print > with it last night. I'd forgotten how very lovely this stuff was. > > Is anyone making anything close to this (Arista? ...?) > -- I don't know of anything like the old Brovira. I had a lot of it, probably all fogged now. AGFA made some unique papers. I have some ancient AGFA and Ansco (who made the same stuff here) sample books and I think they made the best looking paper of any of the brands. I used to use Indiatone, if you think Kodak Opal was slow Indiatone made it look like a racehorse. -- Richard Knoppow Los Angeles WB6KBL dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.