Digital BW, The Print

Hi Clayton,
thanks for your reply - and it's good to hear about VFA performing well.

I have your Condor paper here for the window test and now that it's spring in NZ, plan to start that test with a few other papers as well, asap.

I'm thinking that perhaps just printing a 21-step test strip would be a good way to do it which is what I'm planning to do.

NZ is supposed to have more UV than many other countries so it's probably a good place to do such tests.

I thought of leaving it in a south-facing window over the whole summer (remember that this is the shady side in NZ).

Probably I'll do ... Moab Entrada (natural and bright), Colorado Satine, PremierArt Matt BW (Maybe some other PremierArt - like Platinum Rag), HM Sparrowhawk, Condor ...

Oh ... another thing about the Wilhelm interview - he pointed out that many of the great photographers in the past were even using acidic papers and even those prints have stood up well.

Richard

At 03:56 a.m. Tuesday 11/11/2008, you wrote:
>>because they are normally displayed behind windows anyway, would it 
>>not be better to put them under glass in the direct sun to remove 
>>this contaminant factor? I appreciate that longer would be needed 
>>for the test, however.
>
>Sure, there are lots of things that with some thought could be done to
>make better test conditions. I didn't set out to make an official
>scientific test of some sort, it was more just to satisfy my own
>curiosity. There had been a lot of talk about OBA burn off and I was
>wondering how much OBAs were in VFA, especially since Epson advertises
>that VFA and EEM have the same coating and EEM yellows in a few weeks.
>I was looking at a test print one day and just decided to put it out
>in the sun and log the time...and just see what happens.

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