Re: Basic toning
From: Richard Knoppow <dickburk@ix.netcom.com> Subject: Re: Basic toning Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:46:55 -0800 > Probably the best toner for partial toning is Kodak Brown > Toner which is a polysulfide toner. Agreed. > The color produced by a toner depends on the original image > color, or more precisely, on the structure of the developed > silver. Generally warm tone paper has finer silver grains > than cold tone paper and tones more readily. As a rule of > thumb (with exceptions as usual) the colder the original > image the colder the toned image and vice-versa. Warm tone > paper developers generally result in finer silver grains > hence shifting the image color toward yellow. I don't really recommend warm tone *developer* for prints that are intended to be toned in polysulfide or selenium toner. The toned image may suffer significant density loss and excessive orange or yellow color, especially if used with warm tone paper stock. The effect of toning is very specific to the paper emulsion and you can't really tell from the look of the untoned image. For example, both Ilford MG4 and Agfa MCP produce neutral black image when processed in Dektol 1+2, but Agfa produces significantly warmer toned image, while MG4 remaining almost neutral black. Both papers are useful, but for different purposes. (And AGFA paper is no longer available.) -- Ryuji Suzuki "Strange how people who suffer together have stronger connections than people who are most content." (Bob Dylan, Brownsville Girl, 1986)
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