Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/04/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dear Pablo & Richard, Many thanks for the info. I knew that the difficult bit might be making a good negative - no different really to shooting film. I'm very happy to be educated, so please do continue. I was planning to make my digital negatives on my Epson 3800. Glad I haven't dropped any cash on anything yet. Best wishes, Charlie Charlie Chan www.charlie-chan.co.uk On 21 Apr 2014, at 15:42, Pablo Kolodny wrote: > Hi Richard > > Right you are in that of most of people making digital negs are on the > Epson side. > I had the chance to exchange some emails with one of engineers at HP who > designed those curves for alternative processes. Their job is great, for > me the best of best one can find out there in what respects to making > contrast curves and linearization. I had started it out first with Dan > Burkholder's and then with Mark Nelson's PDN systems and found myself sunk > deep in the ocean do awkwardness. And also saw that in both of cases > prints came with kinda compressed medium tones and washed > whites/highlights. And all this after a very hard work trying to figure > and interpret stuff coming out of scanner working as a spectrophotometer > or even a spectrophotometer itself. A real pain in the ass. Then a friend > of mine got a HP Z3200 and I had the chance to give that a try: how lucky > a man I turned since then ! The evil printer did almost all of the job by > itself, even the contrast curve done with its built-in spectrophotometer, > and so well done. Then I found myself coming back and forth > to my friend's workspace, a pain in the ass. > Then I was back to my old Epson trying to resemble that the 3200 was > capable and found no way, my Epson inks weren't blocking UV enough. I am > now working with an HP but the z3100 because they block UV and actually > found out another system for making the curves up. It's called Chart > Throb. They work great and calibration is a piece of cake > Sent from me > >> On Apr 20, 2014, at 11:53 PM, Richard Man <richard at >> richardmanphoto.com> wrote: >> >> I know a number of people doing "alternative processes" (ancient >> resurrected processes?) and they all use Epson. HP tried its hand on >> "painless Pt/Pd" with curves for the Z3200, and I think some of the >> Erwin's >> work were done on that, but HP pretty much got out of large format fine >> art >> printer market now. >> >> With Epson, there are many different systems of doing digital negs >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information