Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]As with everything else in human life, the market place will dictate where the real worth will be assigned. S. Dimitrov > From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> > Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 20:19:31 -0500 > To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > Subject: RE: [Leica] A Grudging Concession to Digital, Made With Regret > > The black and white, inks v. silver question, Marc, is one that will > never be satisfactorily answered. There is no question that Photoshop > provides far more control over the image than can be achieved in the wet > darkroom. There is also no question that one can produce truly beautiful > black and white prints using inks, rather than silver. HOWEVER - there > is also no question that > an inkjet print produced by someone who has mastered the process, and a > silver print produced by a master printer, are two different (dare I say > it?), separate but equal animals. Both are beautiful; both but they are > not the same. I am extremely pleased with the results I get with the > combination of Photoshop, an Epson 1160 printer, and quadtone inks. But > I know that some silver aficionados will never accept those prints as > "real." So it really comes down, like virtually everything else in every > art or craft, to a matter of taste. > > B. D. > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Jonathan > Borden > Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 4:12 PM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] A Grudging Concession to Digital, Made With Regret > > > Doug Herr wrote: > >> >> Marc, as Dan C suggested, if the prints from your 1200S scans impress >> you, try printing from a really good scan. YMMV, but I was so >> impressed that I gave up the enlarger for good. There's a long >> learning curve ahead of you but the results are worth it. >> >> > > The ease of applying unsharp and contrast masking is hard to believe. > Although I've done a certain amount of Cibachrome printing (mostly years > > ago, more recently I've sent it out) and although there is a somewhat > steep learning curve with Photoshop (I'm not on the top of the curve > yet), the things that can be done in the "digital darkroom" are nothing > short of amazing. > > There is no question in my mind that, perhaps unless your name is Ctein, > > for color enlarging, digital far surpasses the conventional chemical > darkroom. > > Now for B/W is this the case? (An honest question). Do folks feel that > digital surpasses "silver gelatin fiber" ? There seems to be something > to the appearance of a conventional print that has a certain look that I > > find appealing, but perhaps it's just because I am not enough of an > expert B/W digital printer (yet). > > Jonathan > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html