Ilford's Multigrade Art paper - new

[boilerdoc]

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Just wanted to give a shout out to those darkroom printers among us! The new Ilford offering is superb in all ways. Hahnemuhle created the paper stock and Ilford coated and cut it (the way i understand it). It is a heavy weight, and silver rich "matte' surface paper. It tones nicely in selenium and is very slightly warm. The surface is what is unique to me.... Hard to describe. Textured but with a slight gloss at the same time. Beautiful tonality from TMax 400 shot with an M7/90 Summicron. And dries flat!!! The funny thing with it is I can't get the stuff to stay in the washer (Zone VI)! It pops up and almost out of the water!! Needs weights to keep it down!!! Anyway, I'm in love with this paper and want to compliment Ilford for hanging in there with us film shooters!!!

Steve

[RobSkeoch]

I'm glad they came out with a new paper. I was part of the pre-production test group. It is a great paper, but as you said floats in the wash.

 

-Rob Skeoch

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[BobYIL]

Did you use Dektol or some other developer? Is retouching possible with pencil or only liquid? Thanks

 

Bob

[RobSkeoch]

I used Ilford Bromophin. I would guess a pencil would work but didn't try.

-rob

[boilerdoc]

I used a SpotPen without any problem. The 'tooth' of the surface would seem to mean you could also use oils/paints/pastels, etc. for handcoloring. I'll have to try that...

Steve

PS: I used Ilford Warmtone developer in an effort to increase the warm tone a little..... The image develops very quickly, which was a surprise! I expected a very slow development but the image was totally done in 90 seconds...

Edited June 15, 2011 by boilerdoc

[Allen in Montreal]

Thanks for the post Steve,

I picked up a box of 11x14 but have yet to be able to try the paper out.

I was planning on trying it with Edwal Plat ll. Should be close to the same results as the Ilford WT dev I would think.

[imported_peter_m]

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This is good to hear, nice to see new papers being developed.

 

Peter

[Bateleur]

Sounds like a wonderful product. I'm looking forward to trying it for myself.

 

Regards

Charles