At 09:01 PM 4/10/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>Barry,
>
>I'm fond of Ilford's papers and Kodak's chemicals. Dektol (or Ilford's RC
>developer for warmer colors), indicator stop bath and Kodafix fixer should
>fix you up. Hypo clear if you want to get fancy, but with RC papers it's
>not really necessary.
>
>Dave
Here comes a probably useless opinion, since I haven't done any BW wet
printing in over 10 years, but while I agree with Dave's advice on papers
and chemistry, I never got any results with RC papers worth the effort. I
find those papers to be ugly. Ilford's Multifiber paper was quite good I
thought. I don't know if it's still available. You'd definitely want hypo
clear for a fiber paper, and washing up, drying, etc., is a lot more
involved with fiber papers. But a fiber paper used to be considered the
archival standard for BW. Doubt that's changed.
What's the best lens for Barry's enlarger? (Beseler 23C II -- I've got an
old Beseler 23C myself which I'd need to purchase a lens for to use again.)
Joel Wilcox
Iowa City, Iowa USA
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