Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]For me there is one major deciding factor. With digital printing, I will make a print. Fewer prints get made if I have to go in to the darkroom. Photography for me is about pictures, so the technique that lends itself to the creation of more pictures in my particular circumstances wins. Digital wins. I do plan on going into the darkroom for one of the upcoming LUG print exchanges, but for an exhibit or anything requiring a large number of prints ... it's digital for me. Personally I am better at making digital prints than I am at making wet-prints, so in my particular case, the quality of the digital prints is higher. Daniel On 2/20/06, Tina Manley <images@infoave.net> wrote: > At 08:52 PM 2/19/2006, you wrote: > I used to find that something akin to this was true. This essentially > >isn't true anymore (very recently) given the most recent advances in > >digital printing i.e. the K3 inks/printers -- I use the Epson 4800 > >and I also have the older 2200 -- the difference is real. There is a > >paper just about to be commercially released: Crane's Silver Rag > >which provides a very close look to traditional air dried fiber. > >Jonathan > > > I agree with you Jonathan. I think most people who prefer silver > have never seen a good digital print. I'm using the 4800 now with > ImagePrint profiles and the results are much better than any silver > print I ever made or had printed by a lab. I'm embarrassed now by > the first digital prints I made and thought were good. Crane's Museo > Silver Rag is getting wonderful reviews compared to air-dried silver > prints. I can't wait to try it, but I'm not as concerned about > comparing the prints to silver prints because I know they are > better. I love to try out the different surfaces like watercolor > papers that give a totally different look from silver prints. Try > doing that in the darkroom! > > Tina > > Tina Manley, ASMP > http://www.tinamanley.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >