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> Bronzing or plating out is not a reversal or anything else but bronzing or
> plating out -- a *metallic* look to the emulsion, which when viewed from
> one angle sometimes shows near appropriate D-max, from another angle has a
> relective, more or less shiny or mirror-like effect. This comes in varying
> degrees and is called by various terms. But it is not a lessening of
> density or reversal in the sense, true or false, or either of those terms.
> Anyone who has seen it would, I daresay, accept the term "bronzing."
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Hmmm. This would make it seem the answer to my question is "similar
too." Neither identical nor completely different. If I were to show a
classic case of a solarized palladium print to someone and say "this is
called 'bronzing out' " they would accept the term as appropriate and
self-evident. Your description would fit, including the descriptive term
"metallic," except I can't recall seeing a truly shiny effect. But then
I didn't look for it by peering from different angles, either. I've only
encountered the probem a few times in any case since it's not that hard
to avoid in palladium. I imagine a side by side comparison of a
"bronzed-out VDB" and a "solarized palladium" would be needed to learn
anything more.---Carl
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