Digital BW, The Print

Hi Richard,

Well, the truth is, I haven't tried the photo version - just the museum variety. And even if I did I have no way to measure the difference with any kind of instrumentation. It would strictly be an eyeball call. But again, from what I've gathered from Paul Roark and others, with internal lighting the difference wouldn't be as noticeable because the photo white would be more noticeable in daylight (due to the UV) and then, as you say, the DMax would appear to be deeper. I hope Paul jumps in if I'm wrong.

My FedEx shipment of Premier Art Fine Art (fka Premier Art Smooth Hot Press Fine Art apparently) just arrived - someone earlier asked how that compared with the Alise. I'll run some prints tomorrow am when I'm more bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. Stay tuned.

Paul

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Richard Smallfield <r.smallfield@...> wrote:
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> Hi Paul,
> have you measured a difference in dmax between the photo and museum versions of Alise?
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> That aside, I find the increased gamut of brightened papers can give an illusion of having greater dmax than natural papers because there is more tonal difference between the highlights and blacks.
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> thanks,
> Richard
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