NEW ILFORD PAPER

[Dali]

New paper form Ilford!

http://www.ilfordphoto.com/pressroom/article.asp?n=132

Traditional photography is not dead yet...

 

[photoncatcher]

Some really great news.

 

[Jeff Kubach]

Good news!

Jeff

 

[waynecrider]

Very interesting. I wonder tho about pricing what with R&D cost plus higher energy cost. Still tho, good news on new paper.

 

[Joe O'Brien]

When will this be available in the US?

 

[ntenny]

Using fibre base paper will help considerably towards increasing the appreciation of your own prints.

Really? I've been ignoring FB papers on the theory that maybe I should wait until I don't suck at printing, but is it really going to make that much of a difference on the spot?

-NT

 

[Tom Kershaw]

Yes.

 

[kb3lms]

Even though I have never used a fiber paper: Woohoo! Thank you Ilford!


So what fiber paper should I try? I do have a small package of 5x7 ADOX MCC 110 that I want to try. What else is recommended and relatively economical to learn with? VC or graded? Most of the stuff I've shot lately is on XP2 and HP5.

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

There are very few graded papers left - I'd stick with VC papers as a learning tool. Until you know better how to print and how to read a negative, you'll waste more paper trying to print negatives that don't fit a particular fixed grade than you will if you have the ability to change grade mid-stream.