Gast
Mirko,
What sizes and gradients of Adox Nuance are actually available? Depending on where I look on your website or in your catalogue, I find different information regarding the available gradients and sizes.
In particular, the catalogue states that it is available in soft, special and normal – is that a printing error? Under the old name, there were always special, normal and hard gradients, weren’t there?
Thanks, Roland
MirkoBoeddecker
Roland,
Just so you don’t get confused.
Classic Museum is now called ADOX Museum and can be found on page 55 of the catalogue.
ADOX Nuance (page 54) is a new paper which, for a very short time (before it had been given its actual name), was temporarily called ADOX Classic Arts (though at that point it wasn’t yet available in the full range).
The new emulsion roughly corresponds to the following gradients:
1 = Packaging code (G1) = Text description: soft
2.5 = Packaging code (G2) = Text description: special
3.5 = Packaging code (G3) = Text description: normal
We can only produce G1 to order with a minimum order of 1000 square metres.
G2 and G3 are in stock.
Right at the start, we didn’t know exactly how the gradients would turn out and had to produce a batch on the large machine first so that we could then measure them more accurately.
Best regards,
Mirko
Gast
Mirko,
is it possible that a ‘hard’ gradient might be added at some point? I bought a pack of ‘ADOX Classic Arts’ and actually preferred it to Bromofort (aka Classic Museum, Universal BB, etc.), but I’d really like the hard version.
As far as I’m concerned, you can stop stocking the other varieties.
Roland
MirkoBoeddecker
Roland,
Museum is NOT, and never has been, Bromofort.
Unfortunately, we will not be producing Nuance paper with a higher fixed gradient than 3.5.
Nuance is intended for enthusiasts of the highest quality who work with the contact printing process and ensure that their negatives do not need to be enlarged to accommodate significantly different gradients. Hence the relatively narrow gradient range.
What makes this paper unique is its highlight differentiation. The higher the gradient, the more of this is lost.
That is the market for this paper (…and 99% of it is in the USA with the Zonis).
If you wish to enlarge ‘as normal’ on fixed gradients, just as others do on multigrade, then Fomabrom remains an option.
We keep this in stock here in very small quantities for customers like you, at immense expense and, given the cost involved, effectively subsidised.
We also supply the Museum in gradients other than the standard ones, but only to order.
I would like to note, however, that I too like to use Nuance because of the highlight differentiation. If they’re reasonably well exposed and reasonably well developed, 90% of my prints turn out fine, and the ones that don’t are such problem cases anyway that enlarging them is usually not worth the effort.
However, I always work with a two-tank development process, which gives me gradients G2 (2–3) and G3 (2.5–4) at my disposal – that’s all I need.
Best regards,
Mirko
PhilippeGrunchec
Why not a (semi-)matt version :) ?
MirkoBoeddecker
Unfortunately, we had to discontinue this with the previous version (Classic Arts) back in 1998 due to a lack of demand :(
It was, however, very matt, not semi-matt like Polywarmtone 15 or 18.
We still have a heavyweight paper with a matt finish in our range, and that is Fomabrom.
Foma also supplies this to us in packs.
Best regards,
Mirko
PhilippeGrunchec
But it’s actually quite different :(
MirkoBoeddecker
Is that how you spell 'Foma'?
What would you like? (Let's put it that way.)
Best regards,
Mirko
PhilippeGrunchec
What do the "crystal" and "silk" finishes look like?
For me, the ideal finish is (was!) that of the PW17: not quite as glossy as the PW14, not quite as matt as the PW15.
MirkoBoeddecker
The matt finish is slightly more matt than PW 15.
Unfortunately, we aren’t receiving enough orders overall to justify a production run with a matt finish.
We would need at least 1,000 square metres, although we are prepared to keep 500 of those in stock.
So if we received pre-orders for G2, matt, we could make it happen.
That corresponds to roughly 140 packs of 24x30/50.
By the way, we still have PW 17 and PW 18 in stock.
We no longer offer Crystal and Silk.
Best regards,
Mirko
PhilippeGrunchec
I meant "silk" and "crystal" to add a bit of nuance :)
MirkoBoeddecker
Me too ;-)
HenningH
Somehow my question got lost in the update... :o
Is the Nuance’s body more white (like the Variotone) or more cream-coloured (like the Fomatone)?
Swinging regards
Henning
MirkoBoeddecker
Like MCC or Vario Classic, Nunace is cast onto an uncoated substrate.
Best regards,
Mirko
