Different tone w different grades of Emaks

gbenaim

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• Sep 19, 2007

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Hi all,

I just did my first session contact printing some emaks paper, and the grade 2 is seriously warmer than the 3 and 4. It's a lovely color, but doesn't match the other paper, so I'm guessing it's a factory mistake. Has anyone had this type of problem? I'm using PF130, all in the same session. Goes fotokemika have a warm tone graded fb paper, btw?

GB

 

David A. Goldfarb

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• Sep 19, 2007

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I haven't found it drastically different, but grade 2 is a bit warmer. I usually develop it in Michael Smith's amidol for enlarging papers.

 

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• Sep 19, 2007

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David, this is drastically different, like ilford mg vs warmtone, I actually prefer the warmtone, but it is rather inconsistent.

 

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• Sep 19, 2007

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Was the developer fresh, or did you use it at a higher than usual dilution? I have no experience with Emaks paper, but I have seen where old or highly dilute paper developer yields warmer tones with some papers. Could this be one of these instances?