[pure-silver] Re: Warmtone prints revisited
- From: "Gene Johnson" <genej2@xxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 14:09:11 -0700
You must be a pretty happy camper about now.
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From: "Charlie Thorsten" <charlie_thorsten@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2004 2:03 PM
Subject: [pure-silver] Warmtone prints revisited
> Hi everyone,
>
> A while back I had commented about trying to
> get a good warm tone with Ilford MGFB Warmtone
> paper. No matter what developer, etc. I used,
> I still got a relatively white paper base and
> only a moderately warm print color. I ended
> up settling on Selectol Soft as the best
> developer for this project.
>
> So anyway, after hearing the news about Ilford,
> I decided to stock up on as much 16x20 FB WT
> as I needed to finish this project. I had been
> buying it locally, but for this large order I
> called B&H and had them ship 8 50-sheet boxes
> of the stuff, requesting that they all have the
> same emulsion number. It arrived the next week.
>
> One day I'm printing along happily, listening
> to some Pink Floyd. I use up the last locally
> acquired paper and open a box of the new B&H
> emulsion, process the first test and WHAM!!!!
> Yellow-brown-warmtone like I'd never seen!!
> I compared the two prints I had just processed,
> one after the other (same chemistry, time, etc.)
> and the color difference was astounding.
>
> So it turns out my problem *was* with the paper,
> which is strange because I had tried THREE
> different emulsions from three different sources
> here in Southern California, and they were all
> relatively neutral tone. It's the New York
> paper that had the warmtone I was looking for.
>
> I guess Ilford's been having quite a bit of
> production variation at their plant, eh? What
> do you guys think?
>
>
> -Charlie
>
> (As a side note, I tried the new stuff in Agfa
> Neutol WA and it was almost TOO warm. I'm
> staying with Selectol Soft. The lower contrast
> works well with these images.)
>
>
>
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