Whose paper has the whitest base?

chip j · Apr 24, 2016

Ilford, Foma, Adox?

kobaltus · Apr 25, 2016

You could make your own test . Just develop 3 empty papers and compare the result. And let us know.

chip j · Apr 25, 2016

I don't want to buy all kinds of papers if someone has an answer.

miha · Apr 25, 2016

Ilford cooltone is a good candidate. Among the ones I have used: Adox Variotone.

Doremus Scudder · Apr 25, 2016

Fiber-base? RC? Graded? VC?

I can only comment on fiber-base papers. Of those being currently manufactured and that I use, Ilford Galerie and MCC110 have a very bright-white paper base. The Foma graded papers are a bit yellower.

Best,

Doremus

chip j · Apr 25, 2016

I meant FB ,VC or graded. Thanks for the tip on Foma.

RalphLambrecht · Apr 25, 2016

chip j said:
Ilford, Foma, Adox?

They are pretty much all the same with a reflection density of0.05.

RalphLambrecht · Apr 25, 2016

kobaltus said:
You could make your own test . Just develop 3 empty papers and compare the result. And let us know.

I think hewants to know before he buys.

paul ron · Apr 25, 2016

any way to measure so we could post a result for what we have for comparison?

id gladly send you a sample of whatever i have. pm your address?

Jarin Blaschke · May 30, 2016

I just printed with Adox MCC, Ilford Galerie and Fomabrom graded and I actually put the white margins of the prints right next to each other. All prints were glossy and my developer was Ansco 130 with benzo instead of bromide. MCC was the brightest, then Galerie, then the Foma. Differences are subtle and require bright, even light to notice them.

Jarin

chip j · May 30, 2016

Thank you, Jarin. That's what the previous posts seem to say. And you DO need a bright, even light for looking at prints (or slides, negs).

Whose paper has the whitest base?

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