The Agfa Portriga from before the mid 1980s is a much lamented paper for the reasons of beautiful depth of tone and nice surface and flexibility in processing. It is probably the paper that the most people say they miss and the story is that due to environmental regulations they had to change the paper to take out the cadmium. It was my paper in those days and the discontinuation of it was the reason I learned to print in platinum/palladium. There is no paper that has that same feeling exactly. You might however give a try to EMAKS graded chlorobromide paper. I have been using it in the last week and though it is glossier than the old Agfa it has a finer more delicate rendition of fine detail than VC it seems to me. However I do like the Oriental WT VC FB.
Dennis On Jun 8, 2008, at 09:16, ERoustom wrote:
I'm running low on my favorite paper. Agfa PRN 111 (#2).It's warm tone, with excellent contrast for a 2, captures every nuance of thin negatives, tonal rendition and edge detail is superb, it's not too thick of a sheet, and it is subtly glossy. I've tried several poly-contrast multi-grade fiber sheets that do good work, but nothing like this Agfa sheet. There's a wow factor for me with this paper that's just not there with others I've tried. Last night I started working on a print using some Ilford MG IV RC to get a feel for the image, about three or four 5x7's later, I decided to start working with the Agfa sheet. Just the test strip is stunning in comparison.Is it just that graded paper is so much better, more silver rich? Or is it just that the Agfa papers were that much better?Can anyone suggest an alternative. I don't so much care about the tone, warm or cold, but the richness of the detail, and the ability to show subtle tone changes is important to me.The thinner paper appeals to me as well. Thanks, Elias======================================================================= ====================================== 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.
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