Sailor Kobe #53 Kitano Pearl Silver

[lgsoltek]

Description from Kobe Nagasawa:

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To some, Kitano Town is known as a pearl craft city.

International trade port Kobe supported by this pearl export industry.

This silver color is like a shining black pearl with a hint of tender blue.

 

 

Kitano Pearl Silver is a light cool grey with a slight green tone. I can see the association with pearls. The flow is drier than usual Sailor inks. It shades quite a lot and is waterproof.

 

All images below are scans and colour-corrected with a grey card, except close-up photos which are also white balanced with a grey card. 

 

Bottle

(image from Kobe)

 

Splash

 

Sample

(Pens: Pilot Elabo Soft Medium, Lamy 2000 Broad)

 

(Maruman looseleaf)

 

 

(Rhodia)

 

 

(Tomoe River)

 

 

Comparison

 

 

Miscellaneous

(Full page of Kitano Pearl Silver, Midori notebook. Slightly diluted in some places.)

 

 

 

 

 

[LizEF]

Thanks for the review, @lgsoltek!  Love that solid page.   The ink makes me think of a green-leaning Fuyu-syogun.

[A Smug Dill]

Thanks for another fabulous review! The full page at the bottom makes me think that's what Jacques Herbin Gris de Houle is supposed to be capable of exhibiting.

[mizgeorge]

Oh yum, yum, yum, yum, yum. 

Wonderful review of an ink I really want now!

 

Thank you - these are just a joy to read.

[yazeh]

Your review are always a pleasure to behold... thanks

[PithyProlix]

The usual superlatives for this review. 😍😉

 

So, I've thought about mentioning this in an earlier review: why do you think there are differences between the scan and photos, most notably on what 'ink people' call "saturation"? In the scans the background looks completely white, or at least very close to it, and you mention that they are not white balanced. The very white background in scans is not only in your reviews but also in some other folks' reviews as well and it makes me wonder about the accuracy of scanners. In this review, which of the two mediums do you think best captures how the ink looks in person? (I don't intend to be critical - I'm just curious.)

[lgsoltek]

9 minutes ago, PithyProlix said:

The usual superlatives for this review. 😍😉

 

So, I've thought about mentioning this in an earlier review: why do you think there are differences between the scan and photos, most notably on what 'ink people' call "saturation"? In the scans the background looks completely white, or at least very close to it, and you mention that they are not white balanced. The very white background in scans is not only in your reviews but also in some other folks' reviews as well and it makes me wonder about the accuracy of scanners. In this review, which of the two mediums do you think best captures how the ink looks in person? (I don't intend to be critical - I'm just curious.)

 

Both the scans and the photos are all white balanced with a grey card. But I believe scanners tend to turn up the contrast in their scans mainly to achieve clearer texts (depending on different scans and different settings of course), so the scans tend to have a very white background. I used to have a scanner that let me scan images with less contrast but the one I use now doesn't. I think the colour in both scans and photos looks alright to me, but the photos seem more "natural" perhaps.