Hahnemuehle Photo Rag Metallic

Figure 20. London, England, Sunrise, 2012

Camera & Technology

September 26, 2018 ·

Mark Segal

Hahnemuehle Photo Rag Metallic. You read right – it’s a metallic paper with a rag substrate; it’s thick and robust, but still feeds through your printers. This is new, unique and very nice. The paper comes in 17”, 24”, 36”, 44” and 50” rolls and several sheet sizes: US Letter/A4, 11”x17”, A3+ and 17”x22”.

This paper is unlike any other metallic paper I’ve seen or tested. While the others are shiny and garish, this is a rather “low key” metallic – it’s just metallic enough to be “metallic” while accommodating a broader range of subject matter than we would have usually thought suitable for metallic paper. It provides for a superior rendition of colours than I’ve seen with the other gray metallic papers and is particularly well suited to either grayscale or tinted monotone/duotone photos.

The surface finish is also quite unique for a metallic paper. Rather than being glossy, it has a toned-down textured finish somewhere between �...

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Mark Segal

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Mark has been making photographs for the past six decades and started adopting a digital workflow in 1999 first with scanning film, then going fully digital in 2004. He has worked with a considerable range of software, equipment and techniques over the years, accumulated substantial experience as an author, educator and communicator in several fields and is a frequent contributor to the Luminous-Landscape website. Mark developed a particular interest in film scanning and authored the ebook “Scanning Workflows with SilverFast 8, SilverFast HDR, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop” available on the SilverFast website. In his “other life” (the one that pays for the photography), Mark is a retiree from the World Bank Group and now a consultant in electric power development.