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It's a matter of taste and/or subject, the same with cold, normal or warmtone paper......

 

but I like a portrait on semi-mat/velvet and warmtone paper e.g. Fomatone MG 332/333 PE/RC) or 132 (Baryt).

 

Landscapes more on neutral Fomabrom Variant 111, sometimes warmtone Fomatone MG 131 and then glossy.

 

It's the same with the frame, white or black passe partout paper or grey. Normally I keep this very simple. The subject must be the picture, not the frame :)

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Hi Robert

 

As always, you give a fast and good answer to questions on this part of the forum. Thanks.

 

This is about what I prefer too. I’ v also tried matt paper for pictures that are presented in frames with glass. This to prevent reflects both from the paper and the glass.

 

 

OM

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I like the "matny" Fomaspeed 312,

it has a warm deep brown tone and a bright white paper.

I often buy it direct in Prague.

 

In Gernany I can also get the Fomaspeed 313 which has a kind of velvet surface.

This is for birthday or christmass gifts only, because it's rare and seldom.

 

The glosy paper is not whalt I realy like,

I think the glosy surface is a little bit sensitive and so you can see all scratches.

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hi odd

 

very true ...... it depends very much on taste and on what u want to do with your photo....

for example.... i love glossy baryta paper for fluent full tones .... it has big range in tonality so good deep contrast with beautiful gradation can be achived....

the matt papers i love for harder work when i put the photograph slightly into a "graphic" forms... some other printer may prefer the matt paper for more gentle and lighter work etc.....

for me, paper choice plays important role about the way i interpret the final image..... so it is not just reaching about the same tonality on glossy or matt , warm or neutral.... it is more about interpreting the image differently on different papers.....

 

robert and martin....

hahha ...... i printed the recent exhibition on foma variant 111 gloss and fomatone 132 matny.... first time i used foma paper and im so glad.... the variant is eassy - it is very much like MCC111..... the fomatone 132 took one printing session to get used to it but them i simply get in love with it - found the "look" i wanted and it just worked great .... really love the slight yellow-olive-brown colour tint it gets when developed in nuetral devloper for relativly normal-short time

 

oh by the way.... have u noticed how much black-marks (silvers etc) foma 132 leaves in the tray of developer ? :-)

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Thank you to all off you,

 

It’s easier to find, when you know what you are looking for.

 

I’ v fond sellers both abroad and domestic that sells that paper.

The problem is that there is so many options but a limited amount of money to spend.. 

 

I wish I coud look and tutch all the different papers…. There is..

 

Youst now I’ m trying som warmtone paper with Lithprint…

 

Regards

OM

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Fomabrom Variant is made on the Agfa MCC base fiber paper due to the fact Foma bought it from Agfa Photo when they went in bankruptcy. So very similar paper and the same is valid for the Rollei Vintage papers which are especially made for Rollei from Foma in the Czech Republic. Not very special news because it's also written on the Rollei Vintage paper boxes. Very good photo paper either.

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when I was last year in Prague,

I found this wonderfull paper in the fomashop,

now I'm excited to open and use it

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Fomatone MG 542 is discontinued because Schöller (Osnabrück) is not able to deliver this basic material anymore. For the Fomatone MG 532, Foma found another supplier elsewhere. The first new production is just finished and under test now.

I am just expecting some test samples from this rather new photo paper.

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