Digital BW, The Print

To all: Did anyone have an answer to the question of storage in Polyethylene vs 
Polypropylene as posted below (see end of message)? 

To Richard -  I just had a little tour through your gallery. Your environmental portraits are 
especially nice as I think they capture personality, mood and character nicely. Keep up the 
nice work. As a side note, I read your "about you" page and noticed your desire for 
medium format if not for budget constraints. Luckily, budget has nothing to do with 
medium format if you know what to look for. Have a look at this page: 

Medium Format on a Budget
by Robert Monaghan
http://medfmt.8k.com/mf/budget.html 

Most of my equipment is classic. In medium format, I got my feet wet with a $20 WWII era 
Zeiss Ikon Ikonta 6x9 folder a few years ago and added an even better lensed Zeiss Ikon 
Super Ikonta 6x6 folder of the same era (one of my favorite cameras - see this link: http://
www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=439255 ), and later a Rolleiflex SL66 (6x6 SLR) 
and others. These were bargain priced, but the quality is just superb.  You can find 
cameras of various quality in various prices if you do a little studying and careful shopping 
- you might even find freebies in friends/relatives attics. It also helps to know people who 
work on and shoot these sorts of cameras and you can find a whole rafter full of such 
folks at the Classic Camera forum on photo.net here: http://www.photo.net/bboard/
forum?topic_id=1903  

Hope you don't mind the ideas suggested. I hate to see anyone miss out on trying medium 
format when there are so many low cost options for playing around and for serious 
shooting too. 

Best, 
-Lynn 

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Richard Smallfield 
<r.smallfield@p...> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have just bought another box of HPR308 and note that they specify Polyethylene as 
essential for storage of prints . 
> 
> Now ... I have so-called archival sleeves and folders, but they are made of 
Polypropylene.
> 
> Clear File Archival Plus don't seem to have got their act together to provide the standard 
A4/A3 sized sleeves for the digital age ... I was wondering what experiences people had 
had in storing the images in Polypropylene.
> 
> I am musing that the best way to go is to print nothing that is not going to be 
immediately framed for sale - that is, if longevity is an issue.
> 
> thanks for your thoughts,
> Richard
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