[pure-silver] Re: finding a new paper

  • From: Eric Nelson <emanmb@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 00:12:04 -0800 (PST)

Forte Warmtone is my favorite esp. combined with Ansco
115 developer.  Zonal Pro warmtone HQ developer looks
very similar to the ansco 115 (glycin).  I wonder what
is in the Zonal Pro warmtone developer?
http://www.altaphotographic.com/zonal.html

Eric Nelson
http://www.archival-photo.net/


--- Shannon Stoney <sstoney@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> I would like to try Kentmere. Today I am trying
> Forte Warmtone with 
> Agfa Neutol WA, and I really like it. I didn't like
> the neutral Forte 
> with this developer, though. It had that greenish
> cast, which could 
> probably be eliminated with selenium, but why bother
> if you can 
> prevent it in the first place.
> 
> I think Forte Warmtone may turn out to be my new
> paper when all the 
> Agfa is gone.
> 
> --shannon
> 
> >On Friday 17 February 2006 18:17, 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.
>  Also it has an
> >>  unpleasant greenish cast to me.  I am still
> using my old Agfa neutol
> >>  WA paper developer.  Could that be the problem?
> >>
> >>  I guess my next attempt will be with Ilford. 
> Ilford paper, Ilford
> >>  developer.
> >>
> >>  Is there any consensus about what paper is
> closest to Agfa in scale?
> >>  I like the Agfa developer and some people say
> that somebody bought
> >>  the right to keep making it, but I am willing to
> switch.
> >
> >
> >     Some people were claiming Kentmere. I don't know
> I've got 
> >enough paper for
> >quite awhile right now. Freestyle sells Kentmere
> both under the Kentmere
> >label and under a Freestyle label.
> >
> >Nick
>
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