[pure-silver] Re: finding a new paper
- From: "Ralph W. Lambrecht" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: PureSilverNew <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 22:22:30 +0100
Shannon
A&O have acquired one Agfa plant near Munich, Germany and have announced to
make certain Agfa chemicals out of there again. The list includes Rodinal,
Sistan and Neutol. I don't know when this will happen, but I heard form
German retailers that they have started negotiations already. The pity is,
all the Agfa retail channels are gone, so A&O has to rebuild a distribution
chain in to other non-German markets.
Regards
Ralph W. Lambrecht
http://www.darkroomagic.com
On 2006-02-18 18:56, "Shannon Stoney" <sstoney@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Shannon Stoney wrote:
>>> Sorry if this has already been discussed, but I am trying to find a
>>> paper that substitutes for Agfa multigrade FB. Today I tried Forte
>>> polygrade FB, but so far I don't really like it. Maybe I need to
>>> try different dialings on the color head, but the images look sort
>>> of flat to me, with poor separation in the highlights. If I try
>>> for more contrast, they get too dark in the shadows.
>>
>> Ctein talks about this in his book Post Exposure. The short
>> explanation is that Agfa papers were better matched to films with
>> greater highlight contrast (such as TMax 100).
>> I've found the same thing in my own printing. I have a stash of
>> Ilford Gallery that sat unused for years because I didn't like the
>> highlight rendition. Last year, I started a project using Delta
>> 3200, and now I find the Gallery to have great highlights. You just
>> need to match the curve of the paper to the curve of the film.
>> Now that I know this, I can start shooting films that have more of a
>> shoulder, but I still want a paper that can print years' worth of
>> negatives shot on TMax.
>
>
> My negatives are on TXP. And I did have them perfectly matched to
> Agfa paper, using hte BTZS system. When I finish my current project,
> I will expose a step tablet on Forte Warmtone and find out what its
> scale is , and then, I guess, start shooting for that.
>
> I wonder if it's true that somebody will keep making Agfa Neutol WA,
> or if I should calibrate everything to a new paper developer too? I
> got some of that Zonal Pro warmtone paper developer too, to see what
> it would look like.
>
> --shannon
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