I was told about Panalure paper, for making black and white prints from color negs. Has anyone used this, and if so, does it work well? Is it used the same way as RC or Fiber paper?

-- niko coutroulis (ncoutroulis@mvbms.com), March 21, 2001

Answers

It works very well, but you have to get used to working in total darkness. I've messed up with Panalure more than once, which gets expensive fast. It is a graded RC paper. I found that grade 3 worked best for me, but I was printing someone else's old color negs.

-- Ed Buffaloe (edb@unblinkingeye.com), March 21, 2001.

In addition, I have had a lot of sucess printing color negs on Polycontrast RC.

-- Ed Farmer (photography2k@hotmail.com), March 21, 2001.

I too use it on occasion and like the higher contrast of 3 for a "normal negative". You can get away with using regular RC papers but the gradation is finer with Panalure. Cheers

-- Scott Walton (f64sw@hotmail.com), March 22, 2001.

Darkness is almost a must to work with Panalure. I had good results using panalure paper grade M for negatives of average contrast, though it is available in grades L for low contrast negatives and H for high contrast negatives. Panalure paper should be used with tungsten or tungsten-halogen lamps, you can use color compensating filters to obtain other, than the usual, panchromatic gray tone rendering.

-- Dr. Luis Felipe Escarza (lescarza@intermor.net.mx), March 30, 2001.