Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/25

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Subject: Re: [Leica] A Grudging Concession to Digital, Made With Regret
From: "Keith R. Wessel" <keith@wbalaw.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 18:30:25 -0800
References: <BC629473.15A5%s.dimitrov@charter.net>

Perhaps, but, generally at the lowest common denominator.

- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Slobodan Dimitrov" <s.dimitrov@charter.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 6:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] A Grudging Concession to Digital, Made With Regret


> 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
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