From: Gregory W. Blank (gblank@bellatlantic.net)
Date: 03/08/02-12:25:19 PM Z
You can still get Azo I believe from Michael A Smith, he purchases it from
Kodak on special order basis. Interested?
on 3/8/02 1:01 PM, Joachim at joachim@microdsi.net wrote:
> Contact papers were all silver chloride and silver bromide was introduced
> because of the need for faster (more light sensitive) papers for enlarging.
> The characteristics of the anions attached to the silver cation determined
> other characteristics as well, light sensitivity is just one. Chloride
> papers tend to have a much broader tonal range than bromide papers, and Agfa
> added AgCl to its bromide to give us those wonderful, now discontinued,
> papers that made such rich portraits. These days when I want to make a
> really rich silver print I contact print while my supply of Azo paper lasts.
> One major impetus for the shift to digital printing is that the technology
> of silver printing is imploding. It is obvious that the immediate future of
> fine art photography resides in the digital world. Change is neither good or
> bad, change is amoral, but it is that, change. Joachim
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