Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/25
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You can still find some graded papers in the stores---Agfa Insignia, for
example, is still available, and it is essentially Agfa Record Rapid
(without the cadmium, removed due to an EC directive). But to save money
(and because I think the current generation of VC fiber-base papers is very
good), I switched to Agfa's Multicontrast Classic a couple of years ago.
Also, Mark Rabiner and others on the list are proponents of split-filter
printing using VC papers, but I admit I'm still in the training-wheel stage
of that technique.
Chuck Albertson
Seattle, Wash.
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "William Gower" <wgower@eco-tec.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 1:39 PM
Subject: [Leica] FB Papers ?
>
> Hello LUG'ers
>
> I had a previous post that introduced my darkroom situation. To
summarise -
> I'm developing at home, and renting darkroom space to do contact sheets
and
> final prints. I don't see this changing in the foreseeable future. At
least
> not for the next year or so.
>
> It's been a long time since I've been in the darkroom - and allot has
> changed. What has happened to standard grade fibre based papers ? Where
are
> they ?
>
> I used to use standard grade papers, fibre based. I played with Multi
> contrast papers briefly a while ago ('84 - '86), but never liked the way
> they toned in selenium. Maybe it was my imagination.
>
> I checked out the Kodak, Agfa and Ilford sites on the web - all they
offer
> in FB is poly (multi) contrast papers. Kodak offers standard grade papers,
> but only in RC.
>