We have made two more coatings in the meantime and are finetuning the paper´s layer package on the cascade. Paper from the first and second coating has been sent to selected master printers for their testing. We have received back images from Wolfgang Moersch and Lina Bessonova (Florence) sofar. Both are very pleased with the new Polywamtone and...
In the meantime we made several coatings of Polywarmtone II with real emulsions. The last one was May 23rd together with the wonderfull darkroom embassador Lina Bessonova from Florence. The paper is stable sofar and soon the first samples can be send out to selected beta testers. The image below shows MCC in comparison to the new...
In the past 10 years we have made thousands of emulsions. We had to replace 50% of the ingredients and start over from scratch numerous times because of this. To give you an impression we opened one of the many archive boxes. Each single greyscale sample here has been a change in emulsion (variation of make, blend,...
Today we made the first testcoating with real emulsions. The coating went well. Now we need a few weeks to analyze the photographic properties. Edit 8.2.2019: The photographic properties are on target. We need to investigate some coating artefcts. The below testimage shows our Polywarmtone II from the Feburary coating in Marly with a stripe of...
Up to now we have only "simulated" Polywarmtone by coating single layer extracts and calculating the result. Now it is time to merge it all in one package on the coater. In order to start we simulated the calculated package on the cascade with dyed gelatine layers. From this you can learn if the package is at...
We started manufacturing a larger batch of Polywarmtone II emulsions for our first complete layer build up in Switzerland scheduled for late 2018 or early 2019....
A bit of time has lapsed after the last update and we had inquiries if the project is continued at all. This can be answered with a clear "yes". The immediate follow up question ususally is: When will Polywarmtone be available? This question cannot be answered easily. Everything in photo chemistry is outrageoulsy complex and cannot be...
Because of the many inquiries about the status of the Polywarmtone Resurrection Project we would like to post the up to date status. The image in the back is original Forte Polywarmtone coated 2007 and the stripe covering it is our version. Both images were printed, developed and scanned together. So you can see how close we...