Carl Weese (cjweese@wtco.net)
Sun, 28 Mar 1999 16:08:55 -0500
Just got to spend some quality time in the darkroom, and I'm finding
that Ziatype and Rising Bristol 2-ply are a match made in heaven.
The paper coats easily (with remarkably little solution: 32 drops for
7x17) and seems very un-fussy in handling. The tone is velvet smooth
with full range and excellent dmax. The simplest Zia formula results in
a decidedly warm print instead of the expected charcoal neutral. Half
cesium-palladium gives a romantic-looking warm print with chocolate
mid-tones and full deep blacks. Haven't tried other formulas or the
exotic ferric oxalates yet.
Rising Stonehenge White is another story. It's absorbent and wants a lot
of solution, but even so is tricky to coat and tends to get blotchy or
uneven, and the uneven spots *print* uneven. Nice neutral color and
strong dmax, but smooth areas want to go gritty. Maybe a different
coating approach would help, but this doesn't look like a great combo.
But the Bristol makes up for it.
---Carl
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