Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/08

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Subject: RE: [Leica] The digital darkroom
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 10:17:04 -0500

"B. D. Colen" wrote: NOPE - Jim Brick wrote, because he KNOWS digital ! :-)

"...But remember, they are far from
archival. Dye sublimation has some ability to last. Ordinary ink jet output
is pathetic for longevity. There are sprays that help. But two years from
now, that digital print you hung on the wall will be gone. That B&W or
color "darkroom" print you made will still be an infant in it's archival."

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BUT B. D. figures, once you've got the image scanned and then PhotoShopped
and stored on disk, it's a lot easier to push the "print" button once a year
if need be, than to go back into the darkroom to try to recreate that
"perfect print," which will virtually never be identical...