What's the best B/W paper you've ever used? ... Agfa? ... Ilford? ... Kodak? ... Fuji? (Page 7): Mostly what I used (now discontinued) was Luminos F . I liked Agfa Brovira F but...

ORpilot Loc: Prineville, Or

Mostly what I used (now discontinued) was Luminos F . I liked Agfa Brovira F but getting some in Alaska meant a 50/50 chance that it was heat damaged on the long delivery line. Mostly I would use Ilford Galery in either glossy or pearl. I haven't printed in ten years so I am not sure what is out there.

Chris T Loc: from England across the pond to New England

ORpilot wrote:

Mostly what I used (now discontinued) was Luminos F . I liked Agfa Brovira F but getting some in Alaska meant a 50/50 chance that it was heat damaged on the long delivery line. Mostly I would use Ilford Galery in either glossy or pearl. I haven't printed in ten years so I am not sure what is out there.

The good news is that Ilford still makes and markets all the B/W papers it always has ....

The bad news, OR, is that Agfa has gone through restructuring, recently, and there may be delays finding new stock ....

Adox, however, has committed to making and supplying all of the Agfa Bromides, and all of the RC papers ... but, it may be a while getting them out there ....

ORpilot Loc: Prineville, Or

Chris T wrote:

The good news is that Ilford still makes and markets all the B/W papers it always has ....

The bad news, OR, is that Agfa has gone through restructuring, recently, and there may be delays finding new stock ....

Adox, however, has committed to making and supplying all of the Agfa Bromides, and all of the RC papers ... but, it may be a while getting them out there ....

Thanks.....Many "Kodak" moments to you in your travels...

Chris T Loc: from England across the pond to New England

ORpilot wrote:

Thanks.....Many "Kodak" moments to you in your travels...

Oh, thanks, OR ....

Backatya !!!!!

DennisC. Loc: Antelope, CA

Steamboat wrote:

I wish Photoshop had a “add noise” brush, it would save me some time.

Put the noise on a layer and then brush it in .... adjust opacity to taste.
I guess it doesn't save you time but getting lost in PS is 1/2 the fun

That works, been doing it that way since layers were introduced in version 3 nearly 20 years ago. Hard to believe it’s been that long. The adjustment brush in camera raw works well too.

Chris T Loc: from England across the pond to New England

DennisC. wrote:

That works, been doing it that way since layers were introduced in version 3 nearly 20 years ago. Hard to believe it’s been that long. The adjustment brush in camera raw works well too.

Camera Raw, Dennis ... a setting in PS, or another program?

BHC Loc: Strawberry Valley, JF, USA

Wikipedia:

"Until 1895 membership was limited simply to 'members' with some minor distinctions for those living overseas, In that year the Society introduced a new membership category of Fellow and it now offers (from lowest to highest distinction):

LRPS: Licentiateship of the Royal Photographic Society introduced in 1972
ARPS: Associateship of the Royal Photographic Society introduced in 1924
FRPS: Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society introduced in 1895

These require the submission of evidence - photographs or written - which is assessed by competent panels before they are awarded by the Society's Council."

Chris T Loc: from England across the pond to New England

BHC wrote:

Wikipedia: br br "Until 1895 membership was ... (show quote)

Why, thank you, Bill ... thanks for looking that up .... Pablo is an Associate ... not bad do's, huh?

DennisC. Loc: Antelope, CA

Chris T wrote:

Camera Raw, Dennis ... a setting in PS, or another program?

Yes, the adjustment brush in the camera raw filter, under the filters menu.

Chris T Loc: from England across the pond to New England

DennisC. wrote:

Yes, the adjustment brush in the camera raw filter, under the filters menu.

Oh, okay, Dennis ... clearly, I don't have PS ... but, thanks for letting me know that ....

DennisC. Loc: Antelope, CA

Chris T wrote:

Oh, okay, Dennis ... clearly, I don't have PS ... but, thanks for letting me know that ....

What do you use to edit photos?

Chris T Loc: from England across the pond to New England

DennisC. wrote:

What do you use to edit photos?

I don't ... other than re-sizing them so I can post them here ....

To do that, I had been using IrfanView ... but it got messed up ...

I did some checking ... was advised I had an old version - 4.33 - and it needed upgrading to 4.50 ...

Tried innumerable times over the past few weeks to do the upgrade, but it kept dropping out ....

Finally, it went through ... the upgrade had been accomplished ... was now running 4.50 ... tried it ... same deal ... won't work anymore ....

19104 Loc: Philadelphia

The best b&w paper I ever used (wet darkroom) was Dupont Varilour and Varigram. it had a lot of silver in it and made the nicest blacks it was before RC papers. The last I had was in the early 1970's

Chris T Loc: from England across the pond to New England

19104 wrote:

The best b&w paper I ever used (wet darkroom) was Dupont Varilour and Varigram. it had a lot of silver in it and made the nicest blacks it was before RC papers. The last I had was in the early 1970's

Yes, they were both very good papers, 19 ... I liked them a lot ....

Not sure Dupont even makes photographic paper, anymore ...

Thanks for reminding me ... I'll search it out ....

Chris T Loc: from England across the pond to New England

19104 wrote:

The best b&w paper I ever used (wet darkroom) was Dupont Varilour and Varigram. it had a lot of silver in it and made the nicest blacks it was before RC papers. The last I had was in the early 1970's

From what I can gather, 19 ... Dupont's Graphic Arts Division was taken over by Agfa in 1998.

"1998 Acquisition of Dupont's offset printing and graphic arts film business."

Of course, in 2005 - Agfa, itself - at least - the Graphic Arts portion - declared bankruptcy ...

"Sale of the consumer imaging division to a company founded via management buy out, named AgfaPhoto, and held by an investment company. After one year, AgfaPhoto files for bankruptcy."

And, finally ....

"Agfa photographic papers were of very high quality and included brands such as:
Brovira
Portriga Rapid
Lupex

The production of material identical to the last generation of fibre-based and resin coated photographic Agfa Multigrade papers has been resumed by Adox."

So, one would assume, from all this, that although AgfaPhoto was dissolved, in 2005 ... Adox has taken over the manufacture and distribution - of Agfa papers.