RE: Dmax of VD prints

[Keith Gerling <kgerling@ameritech.net>]

In my experience, paper matters plenty.  I haven't tried all that many, but
for kallitype BFK provides less of a scale than Artistico or Uno (although I
like the more neutral color that BFK provides).

But, like you say, opinions don't matter.  Especially mine, I suppose,
because no matter what I try, I still can't get a decent VD Dmax!  With ANY
paper.




-----Original Message-----
From: Sandy King [mailto:sanking@clemson.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 9:09 PM
To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Subject: RE: Dmax of VD prints


Judy Seigel wrote:

>
> > As for tests with the step wedge, I wonder what kind of tonal range
> > people are getting with VD, and if this varies with papers? I ask
> > because my understanding from the literature is that the process has
> > a exposure scale of about 1.4-1.6, or about 5+ stops. Yet the
> > sensitizer I mixed up a few days ago, to the exact specifications of
> > classic VD, has an exposure scale of about 2.7, or nine  stops. That
>
>
>It has been my (expressed) opinion that whoever says "the scale is such
>and such" without stating on what paper is not to be trusted. It has been
>my finding that scale of all these processes tends to change with the
>paper (among other variables).
>

The paper I used for the above test was Rives Aquarelle. I also
obtained a very similar result on Fabriano Artistico. And I am still
interested in knowing whether the scale really varies with different
papers, but opinions don't count here -- what I seek is information
derived from real live testing!

Sandy King