Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm not so sure ...I think this is one where technology is starting to move the market. More and more shows are now including inkjet and iris prints. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Slobodan Dimitrov Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 9:06 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us 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 > -- > 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 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html