Digital BW, The Print

Right. Your not that old - G was a flat matte and had a surface with a
noticeable weave to it, N was a semi-gloss or semi-matte however you
want to look at it, but with much greater tonal range than G, F was
pure smooth shiny glossy. In the type C world I would say most
photographers prefered the N because it didn't have  light reflections
when the print was in an portfolio or on the table. But, most of your
architectural shooters, a lot of ad shooters, and anyone who wanted
the max color and tonal range printed on the F surface. Now all this
was slightly different with the black and white papers.

With fiber based papers the F surface was air dried not super high
gloss and was the prefered choice. Then there was the E surface that
had a different texturization what we might now call a lustre surface,
a slightly pebbley but smooth. Portrait photographers used that
sometimes, especially when hand coloring was used.

That's ole time stuff.

john



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Stephen
Petegorsky <petegorsky@...> wrote:
>
> Not to date myself, but the G surface actually had something of a lustre
> texture to it; F was the smooth glossy...
> 
> Stephen Petegorsky
>