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Review of three new Canson Somerset Enhanced matte papers, comparing their unusual M3 profiles against standard M1 profiles for print quality.

In latter 2024 and earlier this year three new Canson Infinity papers became available: Somerset Enhanced Satin, Enhanced Velvet and Enhanced Watercolor, made in St. Cuthberts Mill, UK. Legion Paper, the North American distributor, provided me with a package of each to test and review. Legion Paper also makes the profiles for these papers. Quite apart from being good quality papers and a pleasure to work with, a rather unusual feature of these offerings is that for two of them: Satin and Velvet, Legion Paper opted to provide profiles made with the M3 Measurement Condition. This adds spice to preparing a paper review, because M3 as the default profile option is unusual. Most profiles are gene...

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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.
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