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Re: PremierArt Platinum Rag

2007-09-27 by john kelly

The best way to get gelatin silver prints is in a wet
darkroom. Lacking real appreciation for gelatin silver
prints, one is probably better off with the better
matte inkjet papers, which in my opinion can readily
look better than gelatin silver. IMO. 

I loved Agfa Portriga Rapid and Fotorite (more silver
than anything ever), and Dupont Varilour, but I make
better prints on HPR. 

In print exchanges I've seen the allegedly most
gelatin-silver-like (baryta etc) prints, the most
expensive paper, and it's sad. The photographers are
so dedicated to faking gelatin silver that they accept
stuff that looks like it's been printed on old
fashioned waxed paper.

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