Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/05/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Austin, I think you missed my point. No where did I mention digital capture. All of my rant was after the film was scanned. As to repeatability of prints, it is a definition of standards. My experience so far has been that in the Epson world, prints made several years later match prints stored in the dark. Actually, so far, they match prints on display. Have I put a densitometer on them? No, so your point can be argued on the technical merits. However, the practical comparison would be an analog print made several years later in different chemistry, with a lamp that is at a different point in its life cycle, with a different batch of paper, and a printer trying to make heads or tails of the dodge/burn notes on the back of the master print. Never mind if there was any localized bleaching, split developers, split filtration, ad nauseum. In the inkjet world, pull out the CD, open PS, open the file, confirm size, optimize the printer to the media being printed on an out comes an extremely similar print. Spotting, I use a scanner with no dust/scratch reduction ability which wouldn't help anyway as 80% of what I scan is regular old B/W negatives and there is always some dust at 200%. Really, I am one of those people who enjoy the best of both worlds, film, and digital. Don dorysrus@mindspring.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html