Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/07

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Subject: [Leica] digital printing
From: Chandos Michael Brown <cmbrow@mail.wm.edu>
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 09:55:37 -0400

Tina,

I'm curious to know whether you intend to go digital for the prints that 
you sell? I ask for a couple of reasons.

First: I've been offered two walls in a local hot restaurant (on the basis 
of small prints from the Epson 700).  I don't have a darkroom, nor easy 
access to one, so I'm upgrading the printer along the lines we've already 
discussed--and moving to archival inks and papers for the 
'exhibition.'  Are you--or any other Luggers--exhibiting digital prints?

Second: I'm exited by the possibilities of various ink/paper combinations 
and their application in 35mm photography--but I'm concerned about the 
'resistance' this might encounter among folk who think of quality B&W 
photography as an entirely silver based process.  Have you encountered this 
attitude?  Have you thought about a response to it?

I pose these questions generally to the LUG, but you seem to be a bit ahead 
on the digital curve.

Many thanks.

Chandos


Chandos Michael Brown
Assoc. Prof., History and American Studies
College of William and Mary

http://www.wm.edu/CAS/ASP/faculty/brown