Digital BW, The Print

I've seen fine examples in B&W print exchanges and, although I
understand why some love them, I don't. 

They "glitter" a little, which isn't bad in itself but I think it
defeats the air-dried-glossy effort. On the other hand, examples of
Hahnemuele (sp?) Photo Rag have been attractive enough that I might
order some, next time I'm feeling spendy.

The most appealing new-to-me paper is Epson Velvet Fine Art, which
looks a lot like Kodak's best B&W paper ever, whose name I don't
remember except that it involved "portrait". Kodak's was good enough
that I used it sometimes instead of Brovira :-)  I'd use this paper
for portraits, for sure, but don't think its character would
contribute to my other goals...though maybe it'd remind someone of
Portriga Rapid. 
 

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Tom Baker
<tbaker1328@...> wrote:
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> Purely subjective, but after buying a couple rolls of the SR, I went
back to the mat papers.  Even though the SR has a higher dMax, it
doesn't look as 'rich' to me.
>    
>   Tom Baker
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> Evan Wolarsky <wolarsky@...> wrote:
>           Just curious as to whether many people have found a use
for the newer 
> Silver Rag type papers, as opposed to sticking with the traditional 
> matte papers?
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> Evan
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