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> "Jean-David Beyer" <jeandavid8@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> AAvK wrote:
>>> [...]
>> Photographic principles have not changed much since Ansel
>> Adams wrote his
>> books. The more recent editions (since 1981) of "The
>> Negative" and "The
>> Print" mainly reflect the newer materials available since
>> the first edition
>> was printed.
>
> Jean-David, does the most recent version of The Print
> include VC papers?
>
> As an aside, our local library has a great old book on
> paper flashing as a means to control contrast range. But
> Agfa #6 is long gone.
>
Flashing is mentioned in a lot of older books.
FWIW, Agfa used a different numbering system for its
papers, each number being one grade softer than anyone else,
until pretty late, maybe around 1980 when it adopted the ISO
standard system. So "normal" contrast, which was No.2 in
Kodak or Ilford was No.3 in Agfa.
The first variable contrast papers were made by Ilford
and Defender about 1940 or 41. I remember visiting a
darkroom where Defender Varigam was in use but don't
remember ever having used it myself. It had a reputation for
producing lower quality prints than graded paper but that
may have been from lack of skill in its use.
I do have a couple of old Defender and Dupont Defender
paper sample books but, unlike their Kodak and Ansco/Agfa
counterparts, the samples have all become badly sulfided and
oxidized so there is no way to tell what they originally
looked like.
I did use Defender Velour Black for a time, a good paper
but being in highschool and having no money I switched to
Gevaert Artex which I could get cheap.
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Richard Knoppow
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