Interesting. Thanks for posting! Jack
--- On Thu, 6/18/09, paul stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > From: paul stenquist <[email protected]> > Subject: Epson Ultra Premium Luster vs. Ilford Gallerie Gold Fiber Silk > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Thursday, June 18, 2009, 10:30 AM > I have a bride coming by tomorrow for > a booking appointment, and as part of my dog and pony show, > I wanted a 13 x19 borderless print of one of my nicer > wedding shots. I also wanted to hype the Gold Fibre paper a > bit. So I printed the file on the new Ilford paper. It > looked good, but I wasn't sure it was better than what I was > getting on the Epson sheet. So I printed it again. The > surface of the two sheets is virtually identical. No > difference can be detected at a normal viewing distance, but > the Ilford paper is a bit heavier. But I was most concerned > about tonality. So along with my wife, I shuffled them > around on the table until I had forgotten which was which > (it doesn't take me long to forget things these days), and > we each picked our favorite. The light was diffuse window > light. It was a close call, but after a bit of deliberation, > we each picked the Ilford Gold Fibre sheet. It's a nice > paper and will probably become my standard offering for > weddings, portfolios and the like. > Paul > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

