[pure-silver] Re: Selenium toning Kentmere Paper
- From: J Howe <jhowe@xxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:21:52 -0400
Bogdan Karasek wrote:
Hi all,
I recently bought a packet of KENTMERE Fineprint VC DW Fiber
Semi-Matte; it was the only Kentmere available. I'm getting fed up of
Ilford papers which are the only papers available in Montreal Photo
stores. So, I wanted to try Kentmere, hoping it might be a suitable
replacement for AGFA MultiClassic.
I tried toning the Kentmere in Selenium 1:9 for up to 15 minutes and
nothing happened. Is it me or is it just the paper that doesn't tone
in Selenium? The Agfa paper toned so beautifully in Selenium.
Anybody else have experiences with Selenium toning and Kentmere paper?
Did anything happen?
I was just looking through the Freestyle catalogue which I received
with some items I had ordered and noticed that there is a Kentmere
Kentona paper which is described as "sensitive to both warm tone
developers and various toning techniques including selenium toning."
Unfortunately, it is a graded paper available only in #2 but
nevertheless, has anybody had any experience with selenium toning this
paper? What about Kentmere Bromide paper?
Cheers,
Bogdan
Hi Bogdan;
Kentmere Fineprint VC neutral tone shows a change to a sort of plummy
color in KRST and also shows enhanced D-max and contrast. I purchased
the Fineprint warm tone but haven't tried it yet. Toning happens within
a couple of minutes at 1:7 so you might try fresh toner.
The color change doesn't seem to be quite as much as Forte Polygrade V
or Kodak's wonderful Polyfiber (still wishing I could get the kind of
response as Polyfiber G).
Agfa's MCC took a very different color in KRST than the other papers
I've mentioned, a deep chocolaty brown, and was easily "split". The
pinkish base sort of put me off, though.
Adox has plans to produce a clone of MCC 111 but the release date is
this summer.
Regards,
JH
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