[pure-silver] Kntmere VC? wasRE: Re: finding a new paper
- From: "Breukel, C. (HKG)" <C.Breukel@xxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 10:49:44 +0100
Hi Chris,
Reading your mail I understand that you find Kentmere VC less good than
Ilford VC ?
(kentmere is has a (much) nicer price tag than Ilford here in Holland, I
use Ilford mainly, but once my stock runs low I was considering giving
Kentmere VC (FB) a try. Thusfar I have used Kentmere Kentone 2
occasionally, which is quite nice)
Best,
Cor
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pure-silver-
> bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Christopher Woodhouse
> Sent: zondag 19 februari 2006 22:26
> To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [pure-silver] Re: finding a new paper
>
> I love Agfa Classic and admit to buying a few boxes more than usual
when
> their demise was apparent. From the calibration work I do for RH
Design
> customers, I see a lot of papers from all over the world, (mostly
European
> and occasionally China. IMHO there were only 3 companies that made
good
> variable contrast papers, Agfa, Kodak and Ilford. By good, I'm
referring
> to
> long controllable contrast range, as well as good blacks at soft grade
> settings and most importantly, consistency. I saw evidence of strange
> tonality at soft grades with many other papers, with portions of the
tonal
> range virtually without contrast. I also could see colour shifts
> throughout
> the tonal scale (without toning).
>
> Agfa was my preferred choice, since with one paper I could achieve
subtle
> cool or warm tones and its reaction to Selenium was especially useful
> pictorially. With Agfa and Kodak gone, we are in the hands of Ilford.
> Their
> coating plants are more advanced than others (or so I have been led to
> believe by ex-employees) and you can achieve most things with
Multigrade
> IV
> and Warmtone together.
>
> Straight prints on Fibre are very similar, but for me MG IV takes on a
> magenta hue in Selenium, hence the reason to switch to Warmtone on
> selected
> images.
>
> I for one shall be returning to Ilford products once my Agfa paper
> expires.
>
> Regards Chris Woodhouse ARPS
> www.ktphotonics.co.uk
>
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