Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sorry Mark... I can't help being bitchy (maybe cynical even) about RC materials... and I daren't even let my feelings be known on ink-jot. Ed Buziak / Publisher Camera & Darkroom magazine ed.buziak@camera-and-darkroom.co.uk http://www.camera-and-darkroom.co.uk - ---------- >From: Mark Rabiner <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com> >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >Subject: Re: [Leica] B&W paper >Date: Sun, Apr 9, 2000, 2:35 pm > >Ed Buziak wrote: >> >> Dan, >> >> I share your thoughts and findings on the Ilford vs. Agfa line... I used to >> use Ilford products 90% of the time until they launched MG IV. Whilst many >> other folks (and reviewers especially) loved it I found I couldn't print at >> all with it... must have been my negatives that were wrong after 30+ years >> of home-processing <S>. >> >> Although I can't get a decent print from Ilford MG IV... their new >> "Cooltone" paper (OK, plastic) is superb... they have GOT to bring it out in >> the real stuff, and when they do it will be a VERY popular material. It >> isn't all that "cold" to look at when processed... and it can be made to >> look almost warm in the right brew, but it sure is a rich paper (sorry, I >> mean plastic). >> >> Ed Buziak / Publisher >> Camera & Darkroom magazine >> >><Snip> >I thought RC paper really was paper! Just a thin amount encased in Resin! My >darkroom sink is encased in Resin! >Mark Rabiner