Re: Any experience with Pictorico PGFH White Film?
Hi Philip, I have used the Pictorico Pro Photo Gallery Hi-Gloss White Film with BW only. No need with alternative processes. I did a side by side comparison of this and plain old cheap Kirkland Professional Ink Jet Glossy paper and found that the latter worked just as well and the sharpness/resolution was surprisingly close to the Pictorico, close enough to not warrant paying a buck or two a sheet vs. 12 cents. In fact, I just taught curve calibration to 18 students using it for our negative substrate. In a side by side comparison, the Pictorico white was quite a bit denser--my data is at the office but if I remember, it required a stop (maybe it was 2/3) more exposure than the Kirkland. But my stuff is the 6.7 mils/170 micrometers/213g/m2/iso brightness 92, thicker than that, below. Perhaps they have created a thinner substrate, because both of the above created a "bleed" . I've posted an image here for you to show what I mean. The little square test targets are 1 pixel, 2 pixels, 3 pixels, and 4 pixels each little dot so it is a scan of 8 of these teeny 1/4 inch squares, courtesy of Mark Nelson's PDN system tonal palettes. Those little test targets come in so handy for resolution comparisons: Chris http://christinaanderson.visualserver.com/Text_page.cfm?pID=2448 _________________ Christina Z. Anderson http://christinaZanderson.com/ __________________ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pacific New Media" <panmedia@verizon.net> To: <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 10:20 PM Subject: Any experience with Pictorico PGFH White Film? I got some Pictorico PGFH White Film in lower price than Inkpress white film and wonder if it can be used for producing digital negative for silver or certain alternative processes.
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