Thin RC Glossy Paper?

If you're willing to take this a step further, you can coat your choice of paper with a liquid emulsion.

Freestyle actually has uncoated baryta paper that is made for putting your own coating on, so that might be a great choice and something really fun to explore. Thanks for the tip!

eddie said:

If you're willing to take this a step further, you can coat your choice of paper with a liquid emulsion.

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I'm assuming the OP may also be asking about thin paper for ease in loading his film holders. That also interests me. I have been using Ilford MGIV RC, and it is a little tight going in the holders. So much so, that when I load film, I feel like I have to check just to be sure it is in the rails, it goes in so much easier!

Please report back with your experience - I'll be needing to order some more paper in a bit myself.

I will update the thread here once I have done some testing.

StephenT said:

I'm assuming the OP may also be asking about thin paper for ease in loading his film holders. That also interests me. I have been using Ilford MGIV RC, and it is a little tight going in the holders. So much so, that when I load film, I feel like I have to check just to be sure it is in the rails, it goes in so much easier!

Please report back with your experience - I'll be needing to order some more paper in a bit myself.

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I made a photo book with the Slavich paper - specifically single weight matte Unibrom - the normal grade seems to be around Grade 3 and the matte finish is really nice - a bit smoother than Ilford FB matte. It is thin enough to feel like a page in a quality art book, but it's important to design the binding of your book in such a way that there's not too much of a bend in the paper - it's a bit brittle. If you use an upright Nova tank like I do for developing, two clips are required as the paper goes very very soft when wet. On the plus side, unlike thicker FB papers it's very easy to flatten - I used a dry mount press...

As for the prints - delicious - I had to ditch a few pictures I couldn't make work at Grade 3 contrast, but the paper is very very nice. I took my book prototype along to a Large Format photography gathering in Canberra in August, and a few folks there were very enthused about the paper indeed (Hey, whatabout my pictures!!)

Marc!

analog65 said:

Freestyle actually has uncoated baryta paper that is made for putting your own coating on, so that might be a great choice and something really fun to explore. Thanks for the tip!

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i do a lot of coat-my-own, if you want thin ...
if the baryta paper is like some of the stuff i recently bought it is fiber based paper
and double weight, not thin by any stretch of the imagination.
you can get japanese papers, or at your local restaurant supply store some butcher paper
they work great as paper negatives. i also use a pad of "velum" and other glued at one end papers
they are thicker than both butcher and japanese papers, but they also take wax ( paraffin ) well
and can easily be made a little more see-through.

good luck !

Anon Ymous said:

Yet another reason to favor Foma then. They're definitely not safe with a yellow green safelight

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That might make it more suitable for use as a paper negative.

Joe VanCleave said:

There might be a difference in sharpness of the print, based on the negative thickness

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I would assume that it is normal to contact print emulsion to emulsion so paper thickness shouldn't cause a problem.


Steve.