Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/08/11

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Subject: [Leica] B&W elementary tech
From: Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)
Date: Thu Aug 11 14:33:09 2005
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I haven't seen that magenta cast with the Ilford Smooth Pearl paper on 
prints made on my 2200.  Has anyone else seen it or is it peculiar to 
the C86?

Jim

Robert Meier wrote:

> It isn't metamerism I've seen in the MIS prints from the C86.   The 
> prints are quite neutral in tone and that doesn't change with the 
> viewing light. What I have seen is a reflection off the prints made on 
> Ilford Pearl paper that has a bit of a magenta to bluish cast.   This is 
> the reflection off the Pearl surface, not the image itself.    And I've 
> only seen it with the Pearl paper, but I really like the Pearl paper 
> (I've used it in its original wet version for a long time), and I wish 
> it weren't there.  (It isn't there in the wet version Pearl prints.)



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