[pure-silver] Re: Good news from Ilford
- From: "Dave Valvo" <dvalvo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 22:57:09 -0400
Kodak sells two Sepia toners. I formulated Sepia II to be a stronger
bleach. Use it if you are having trouble bleaching. The redeveloper is the
same in Sepia I or II. Sepia I was designed years ago for the old simple
emulsion chemistry papers.
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Neilsen Photography" <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 7:22 PM
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Good news from Ilford
> Don, I too, find that the MG IV tones quite nicely with selenium and sepia
> toners. If you are using a Kodak sepia bleach package, you may find that
it
> takes like what feels like a year to bleach compared to Agfa papers, a
> stronger mix will get the job done quite nicely. It takes less than a
minute
> to completely bleach a MGIV glossy print in my darkroom. I don't claim
the
> toning prowess of Sir Tim, but I can certainly get the MGIV to accept
> selenium toning from punching the blacks to producing quite reddish
> highlights.
>
> Perhaps, you need to readjust your solution strengths and times a little
or
> it could be that they just don't work like you'd like them too and that is
> OK. But they do tone for me and many others, so perhaps it's a personal
> thing. : )
>
> EJ Neilsen
>
> Eric Neilsen Photography
> 4101 Commerce Street
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> Dallas, TX 75226
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pure-silver-
> > bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Don Feinberg
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 4:16 PM
> > To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Good news from Ilford
> >
> > Tim --
> >
> > Methinks you're looking too hard ...
> >
> > MG IV (normal, not the WT) doesn't tone in selenium. Or sulfide. At
all.
> > But you know that!
> >
> > - Don Feinberg
> > ducque@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Tim Rudman" <ps@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 1:40 PM
> > Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Good news from Ilford
> >
> >
> > >I use Ilford papers a lot and I both bleach and tone a lot. I don't
have
> > >any
> > > problems with them, what difficulty do you have?
> > > MGWT is extremely responsive to bleach. I have just finished a series
> > last
> > > week on MGWT, lots of light values - wanted to tone only those,
leaving
> > > some
> > > black silver in mid tones and low values unaffected. I was using
working
> > > strength bleach at 1/10th 'normal' and bleaching for only 25 seconds.
I
> > > certainly wouldn't want anything reacting faster than that! :-)
> > >
> > > Tim
> > > http://www.worldbookoflithprinting.com
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > [mailto:pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Len Eselson
> > > Sent: 13 July 2005 17:11
> > > To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Good news from Ilford
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, the Ilford fiber papers do not bleach or tone as
readily
> > as
> > > the Kodak papers. Forte, Agfa, Berger and others do. I wish Ilford
would
> > > fix
> > > this.
> > >
> > > Rgds
> > >
> > > Len Eselson
> > >
> > > On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 16:47:39 +0100, RH Designs wrote:
> > >
> > >>In today's British Journal of Photography:
> > >
> > >>"[Ilford] has also reacted to Kodak's announcement that it is to stop
> > >>manufacturing black-and-white papers by releasing a chart showing its
> > >>own equivalents to Kodak's papers. This can be downloaded from ...
> > >>www.ilfordphoto.com by clicking on the Monochrome Products
availability
> > > list."
> > >
> > >>I just had a look at the site and can't find it at that location, but
> > >>it is available at http://www.ilford.com/html/us_english/wwpal.html.
> > >
> > >>Regards
> > >>Richard
> > >
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