bob kiss caribsurf, is that one still available? Thank you for the
recommendation.
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On Oct 18, 2017, at 9:30 AM, bobkiss caribsurf.com <bobkiss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, Velour Black! What a paper!!!
From: "`Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2017 6:21:40 PM
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Paper Recommendation?
First of all, my prayers go out to your friend. This sounds like a
horrible nightmare and tragedy. I hope is able to recover. Things like this
are always shocking.
I think what Janet was asking about is a dead matt finish. I don't do much
darkroom work at the moment (want to fix that) so I don't have a good idea of
what is available but in the past what I saw was all fiber based. This
material has almost no specular reflection I am not sure what its purpose
was.
Matt finish paper will always have lower contrast than glossy.
Simply the matt areas reflect some light lowering both shadow and highlight
contrast. Increasing image contrast does not correct this, there will always
be a loss of maximum density. Ferrotyped glossy paper has the highest
contrast and greatest density of all surfaces. Nearly all paper manufacturers
made some extreme textured surfaces in the old days mainly to eliminate the
need to retouch by suppressing fine detail. AGFA/Ansco made some surfaces
that, to me, dominate the image.
A spray finish might achieve what is wanted. There are matt lacquers that
are designed to take pencil work, something like that might do it. It depends
on what the objective is.
If Robert Shanebrook (sp?) is still following this list he might know how
Kodak made the V and W surfaces.
With the end of the enormous photographic materials industry I think
there is a lot of reinventing the wheel going on. It would be nice if I could
run down to Freestyle (couple of miles from here) and by a box of Gevaluxe
Velours.
On 10/16/2017 2:56 PM, Richard Lahrson wrote:
The last matt paper I used was Bergger Prestige.graded.
Sometimes you don't want a glossy finist and the matt is
too dull. I may get a box of the llford matt and experiment
with various spray or apply on products that are available,
most say there are archival.
Rich
On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 3:23 PM, Janet Gable Cull <janetgcull@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Thanks guys. I always know I can get information here.
By the way, any of you who participated in print exchanges, (a couple times
back) maybe you remember my friend Barry from Statesville who joined in with
us a time or 2. He was in a serious cycling accident and is in ICU at the
big hospital in Winston-Salem with Traumatic brain injury and several broken
bones. If you pray, please pray for him.
Thanks.
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On Oct 15, 2017, at 5:37 PM, Bob Younger <ryounger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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