RE: studio cameras circa 1950s

Hi Don (and company!) - Isn't all the Azo production (which Michael and
Paula handle) all single weight paper??

Best - JB

www.jonathan-bailey.com
Tenants Harbor, Maine

  -----Original Message-----
  From: Don Bryant [mailto:dstevenbryant@mindspring.com]
  Sent: Monday, May 29, 2006 3:36 PM
  To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
  Subject: RE: studio cameras circa 1950s

  AFAIK, there are no single weight papers being produced any longer

  Don Bryant

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  From: eric nelson [mailto:emanphoto@gmail.com]
  Sent: Monday, May 29, 2006 12:46 PM
  To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
  Subject: Re: studio cameras circa 1950s
  DW paper is acceptable for HABS, well processed of course.  Their
reasoning is that when you start putting thousands of DW prints into
files/filing cabinet etc., the paper thickness comes into play, taking up
more storage space.  Given the quantities of prints they have and require
from any given location, one can see how this is an issue for HABS.
  I've not seen any updates from them addressing this issue as I've not seen
any SW paper in a long time.
  Eric Nelson
  On 5/29/06, Jack Fulton < jefulton1@comcast.net> wrote:
  You are absolutely correct Bob . . I was 'spinning off' on a tangent
  there at the end
  but this last ten days have seen me photographic a nearby historic
  building, about
  to be razed, for record keeping. There are HABS (historic American
  Buildings Survey)
  standards to follow, which require single weight glossy silver-
  gelatin paper. There is
  zero of that in ANY store in the San Francisco Bay Area. It does not
  seem B&H in NYC
  has any as well. But, I'll find some . . it frankly completely
  surprised me though I've
  known of the recent shortage of production.
          Cheers
                  Jack
  On May2006, at 4:00 AM, BOB KISS wrote:
  > DEAR JACK,
  >       Ilford, Oriental Seagull, Kentmere, Bergger, and the eastern
European
  > manufacturer (can't recall name) continue to make an excellent
  > range of
  > silver-gelatin papers...so there is neither a virtual nor real lack of
  > excellent options.  Yes, there has been a loss of passion now but
  > it isn't
  > due to a lack of excellent photo paper.  As a matter of fact, what has
  > survived are the best fine art silver-gelatin papers you could ever
  > get.  I
  > haven't used Agfa or Kodak photo paper in two decades...they were
  > simply not
  > up to the standard of these manufacturers.
  >               CHEERS!
  >                       BOB