Moersch Finisher Blue contains it - and SE6 is designed to work well with Finisher Blue. I think 10ml/l of Finisher Blue in fairly strong working strength SE6 is supposed to render even MGWT chilly.
Neither Photographer's Formulary nor Artcraft list PMT as available. The former used to offer it, but doesn't now. Other than commercial/industrial chemical supply houses, which typically only deal B2B, are you aware of any PMT sources today?
AFAIK the recent Oriental papers had nothing to do with the Oriental of former times. I think it was a more or less a marketing ploy by the Japanese importer of Ilfordphoto products for a "private label" paper that they had manufactured by Harman in the UK. Same for the ISO100 and ISO400 b&w films sold under the Oriental brand. Just another reiteration of the Kentmere 100/400, Agfaphoto APX100/400, Rollei RPX 100/400, Adox CHM100/400 ...
Thanks, but since SE6 does what I want on MCC 110, hunting down PMT or buying the Moersch Finisher and using either with another developer wouldn't be much of a gain in convenience.No idea. It has been a few years since I did those experiments. Formulary still lists it in their catalogue but it doesn’t appear to be in stock currently. You could try asking them.
As per Lachlan’s post you could buy a bottle of Moersch Finisher Blue which is a PMT/BTAZ solution, PMT being the active ingredient in developers or additives that actually (ie for real) change papers from warm or neutral all the way to blue-black depending on how much you use.
Thanks, but since SE6 does what I want on MCC 110, hunting down PMT or buying the Moersch Finisher and using either with another developer wouldn't be much of a gain in convenience.
I feel like we've been asking this question since the 1980s. It was legendary, but was it ever a consistently available product?
My very first rant in 2021:
I had started a thread awhile back, either here or on the LF forum, asking about Oriental paper availability. The only thing I found out is that it was still available in Japan but no confirmation as to wether it was still being manufactured. I emailed and left voice messages at their distributor in the US (their website still lists the paper) but never received an answer.
I wish that someone living in Japan would make a serious inquiry to verify its manufacturing status. Oriental paper has had an on-off-on again distribution/ availably in the USA going back many years.
I just checked my boxes of Oriental paper and it clearly states ‘Made in Japan’ but, regardless, it may be made by someone other than Oriental; the paper certainly behaves differently to Selenium than the other cold-tone papers FB papers I use (Ilford, Foma). With the Oriental paper I get colder tones than with the others.
ADOX 110 FB - my go-to- warm tone paper is also no longer available; it will supposedly be available again in the near future but nothing is for certain (at least to me); if when it becomes available again, will it have the same characteristics?
I need not tell you how annoying this is to those of us who start long-term projects and print them on specific papers only to see these materials become suddenly unavailable.
Quote from the famous Paul Strand..."as soon as I find a paper I like it's discontinued" so nothing has changed as he said this back in the 40's or 50'sMy very first rant in 2021:
I had started a thread awhile back, either here or on the LF forum, asking about Oriental paper availability. The only thing I found out is that it was still available in Japan but no confirmation as to wether it was still being manufactured. I emailed and left voice messages at their distributor in the US (their website still lists the paper) but never received an answer.
I wish that someone living in Japan would make a serious inquiry to verify its manufacturing status. Oriental paper has had an on-off-on again distribution/ availably in the USA going back many years.
I just checked my boxes of Oriental paper and it clearly states ‘Made in Japan’ but, regardless, it may be made by someone other than Oriental; the paper certainly behaves differently to Selenium than the other cold-tone papers FB papers I use (Ilford, Foma). With the Oriental paper I get colder tones than with the others.
ADOX 110 FB - my go-to- warm tone paper is also no longer available; it will supposedly be available again in the near future but nothing is for certain (at least to me); if when it becomes available again, will it have the same characteristics?
I need not tell you how annoying this is to those of us who start long-term projects and print them on specific papers only to see these materials become suddenly unavailable.
ADOX 110 FB - my go-to- warm tone paper is also no longer available; it will supposedly be available again in the near future but nothing is for certain (at least to me); if when it becomes available again, will it have the same characteristics?
I need not tell you how annoying this is to those of us who start long-term projects and print them on specific papers only to see these materials become suddenly unavailable.
David not really he was not a big platinum printer and those commercial papers died to pretty much after WW1Strand, as I recall, was talking about commercial platinum paper, which was a big loss.
I think Hurrell used to stock up on film in multi-year quantities to be able to dial it in and think about other things, and he was shooting pretty high volume.
Strand, as I recall, was talking about commercial platinum paper, which was a big loss.
I think Hurrell used to stock up on film in multi-year quantities to be able to dial it in and think about other things, and he was shooting pretty high volume.
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