Actually, it was Ctein's article in Phototechniques that started this chain of events for me. I realised that my prints were an order of magnitude away from the resolutions he stated and I began a study to understand final print resolution, using first principles and 1/Rt**2 = 1/R1**2 + 1/R2**2 etc., to see where the weak link in my chain of MTF degradation was. It wound up with the paper resolution. Funny how life is about these things.
If the limit to "sharpness" on the print is acutance, I'd like to be the one making the choice. I've made choices on the quality of lenses I've purchased, the film that was chosen to minimize grain and maximize resolution, the rigid enlarger (Durst 138s and not cheap) and large format view cameras (5X7), why not the paper.
I don't know what a high acutance paper would produce, wrt a high quality print, and maybe someone's already done that work and has handed us the result, I'd just like a choice, or at least to know why we're limited to 12 lp/mm.
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