Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/09

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Subject: Re: [Leica] B&W paper
From: Ed Buziak <ed.buziak@camera-and-darkroom.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 18:48:26 +0000

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

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>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