MirkoBoeddecker
...hasn’t been available for quite some time now.
But it was a brilliant paper.
So it would be great if it were available again, wouldn’t it?
My question is whether there are still enough people interested in this paper, and whether there are any experienced Portriga users with remaining stocks who might be interested in testing it.
FOTOIMPEX owns the formulas for this paper, but the original vat could not be located in the insolvency estate, as production of this paper has not taken place in Leverkusen for many years. With our filling plant, the result will almost certainly not be exactly right at the first attempt.
So we would have to proceed cautiously and carry out a few comparative tests.
Best regards,
Mirko
heinrich
Hello Mirko,
Does it really make financial sense to re-release a fixed-grade paper? I understood you to mean that sales figures for fixed-grade papers are so low that it doesn’t make sense to offer all grade levels. So why develop a new one?
However, if you were to have a variable-contrast warm-tone paper developed, similar to the PW-14...
...you’d already have a buyer :-)
Best regards,
Heinrich
MirkoBoeddecker
Hello Heinrich,
At the moment, our priority with this project is simply to build up a comprehensive range.
Whether we can launch this on the market now or should wait a little longer is a decision that needs to be made on a case-by-case basis, depending on the product.
We have demand for both top-quality products and affordable, general-purpose items for schoolchildren, students and beginners.
There are plenty of suppliers of affordable, good-quality paper, so things will certainly stay as they are there.
However, there is now only one supplier of top-quality paper, and they are far from covering all areas.
At the moment, at any rate, I can’t imagine offering the paper in all thicknesses, but as FinePrint material for zone system photographers in special and standard grades, it could well be a success.
As for Polywarmton, too many people are currently pulling in the same direction. It seems the whole world is now desperate to replicate this paper. It’s not worth getting involved at the moment; otherwise, we’ll have overproduction again from day one and won’t cover our costs. If the others aren’t successful, we’ll take another look at it. If so, we’ll be happy to offer it again.
After all, it was our best-selling product despite all the problems in the final phase.
Best regards,
Mirko
acroell
I'm just as interested as I was before, though my interest in Record-Rapid ('Insignia' in the US) is even greater...
I might still have a few Record-Rapid records as well.
ManfredBecker
...hasn't been available for quite some time now.
But it was a brilliant paper.
So wouldn't it be great if it were available again?
My question is whether there are still enough people interested in this paper, and whether there are any experienced Portriga users with remaining stocks who might be interested in testing it.
FOTOIMPEX owns the formulas for this paper, but the original vat could not be located in the insolvency estate, as production of this paper has not taken place in Leverkusen for many years. With our filling plant, the result will almost certainly not be spot on at the first attempt.
So we would have to proceed cautiously and carry out some comparative tests.
Best regards,
Mirko
ManfredBecker
I used Agfa Portriga Rapid 112 and 132 for as long as they were available; I achieved
the best results with them
compared to other papers (from Argenta, Ilford, Kodak, Leonar, Mimosa, Oriental). The three gradients with log(copying range) = 0.95 (vivid),
1.2 (normal), 1.5 (soft) were perfectly adequate for me; they differed from the gradients of other
papers (vivid corresponded to normal on Record Rapid, normal corresponded to special on Record
Rapid, and soft was quite similar to Record Rapid; there was also Record Rapid
extra soft (1.7)).
Record Rapid (more sensitive, better preserved, whiter) was no substitute for Portriga Rapid.
Portriga Rapid’s storage life was far superior to that of today’s
papers with variable gradations (for which even fridge storage doesn’t help much).
I would return to Portriga Rapid in a heartbeat.
Kind regards.....MB.
EugenMezei
Heinrich,
How do you make sense of it?
I’d love it if papers with a fixed gradient became more common again. I simply find them easier to work with – perhaps partly because there was nothing else available back when I started out here.
Eugen
