Slavich Arrives

Samples Arrive

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the paper arrived this past friday. I had some other work to get out before getting round to some tests of this paper. It came from Los Angeles, the distributor/importer. Packaging wasn’t good, but I never expect B&H packaging to be as good as Freestyle. Although, since this was a drop ship order, I had hoped they would send it packed as though they understood how to pack light sensitive paper.
It just came in a blister pack — as though it were a catalog, or other advertising material intended for perusal and discard. This is what happens in shipping:
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Can’t blame the carrier, these breaks and folds are because the packing doesn’t hold the contents tightly. It wasn’t even a padded envelope. I don’t know what I will do if the paper turns out to be a winner. Seems dangerous to consider ordering a large quantity that may not be packed properly for shipping.
Included instructions. They also include formulas for developer,stop, and fix baths. This is thorough tech data.
Slavich

lighting times

natural light occurs in three times, two times, daylight and night, are stable times, not static but limited in amount of change once they’ve taken hold of the day. exposures can be tested, and settled upon in either daylight or nighttime, it is during the third phase of the day, that of dusk and dawn, these are the times of great change. your meter will fail you, even as the light will.

reciprocity won’t save you now!