Fomalux 111

[Ken Kapinski]

I received the new Freestyle catalog today and noticed this new item.

Fomalux 111 fiber contact speed.
" A double-weight, fiber-base, grade 2, glossy surface, very slow speed, silver chloride emulsion paper characterized by a rich halftone scale. Designed primarily for contact work."

I don't see it on the Freestyle website yet but the catalog shows $32.99 for 25 sheets 8 x 10. Any chance anybody tried this yet and what were your thoughts.

Ken

[BradS]

Too bad that Fomalux 111 is fiber based. I have been using, and for the most part enjoying Fomalux 312. I'm not crazy about the Matte surface.

Freestyle describe it as....
"Fomalux 312 paper is a medium-weight, resin-coated, grade #2, matte surface, very slow speed, silver chloride emulsion paper characterized by a rich halftone scale. "

[Vlad Soare]

Wow, so they started making it on fiber base, too. That's great news!

Too bad that Fomalux 111 is fiber based.

Why is it too bad?

[BradS]

^^^ I prefer RC.

[Keith Tapscott.]

I received the new Freestyle catalog today and noticed this new item.

Fomalux 111 fiber contact speed.
" A double-weight, fiber-base, grade 2, glossy surface, very slow speed, silver chloride emulsion paper characterized by a rich halftone scale. Designed primarily for contact work."

I don't see it on the Freestyle website yet but the catalog shows $32.99 for 25 sheets 8 x 10. Any chance anybody tried this yet and what were your thoughts.

Ken

I'm wondering if that might be a typo? According to the Foma website, it's a paper designed especially for portraiture and similar applications.
http://www.foma.cz/foma/produkt/Foto...nam=cernob_fot

[Vlad Soare]

I don't think it's a typo, because it has the right code, too.
111 means fiber based, glossy.
Besides, Foma mention "fiber base" on their website in both languages, English as well as Czech.

Later edit: Oh, you mean the silver chloride thing? No, that's not a typo. Fomalux is not new. Its resin coated version has been available for some time now, and it's indeed a silver chloride paper.

[Sal Santamaura]

Has anyone considered the possibility that Foma is the manufacturer of Lodima Fine Art and this is simply Foma marketing that product under its own name?

[Vlad Soare]

Yes, that thought has crossed my mind, too. But that may be nothing more than a far-fetched assumption.
Come to think of it, considering the quality of most of their products, I think that Foma being the manufacturer of Lodima would be a good thing.

[Michael Jones]

Odd that it is in a printed catalog, but still not on their web site...

Mike

[David Karp]

There was a post on this site a while ago that stated Foma was going to put this emulsion on fiber paper. Just don't have time to search for it.