[pure-silver] Re: Oh How I Miss This Paper
- From: "Mike Kirwan" <mkirwan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:19:19 -0800
To some extent you can overcome the fogging with a restrainer, I tried some
old Oriental Seagull a few months back and could not get a usable image.
Tried Benzo and Pot Bromide and combinations of both - the paper was too far
gone
Mike
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Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Oh How I Miss This Paper
Hi!
Even if the paper is old and fogged, can't this be cleaned up? I'm
thinking of more restrainer.
Best, Rich
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Richard Knoppow wrote:
>> ----- 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.
>>
> My favorite was Kodak Elite Fine Art.
> One of the versions of New Oriental Seagull, while different, was good
too.
> I could make Ilford Galerie work pretty well, but I had more and more
> trouble getting it.
>
> Right now, I do not really like any papers. I am wondering about just
> making contact prints on Azo from my 4x5 negatives. I have given up on
> color because I just cannot get results I like with color materials.
>
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