> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sandy King [mailto:sanking@clemson.edu]
> Yes, Fortepan film is available in the US. I have been involved in a
> lot of film testing over the past month or so for a book project and
> it is one of the films that I tested. It performs about on a par with
> Ilford HP5+, which means that it is an ok film for medium and high
> contrast scenes but something of a dog with low contrast lighting.
> This is due to the fact that after a certain point of development the
> contrast levels out and further time in the development merely
> increases density, but not contrast. For printing with processes like
> carbon, kallitype, palladium and Pt/Pd I would reserve it primarily
> for high and medium contrast scenes.
>
..Sandy,
I assume you used your PyrocatHD developer on Fortepan and HP5+ in above
experiments?
Best,
Cor
Received on Fri Feb 27 05:05:00 2004
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