Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/15

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Subject: [Leica] re: digital treadmill
From: leowesson at charter.net (leo)
Date: Sun Jan 15 14:54:28 2006
References: <19474141948823.19488231947414@shaw.ca> <f96124375c020c72f7e1bf2505f82b03@mac.com>

   also nice and interesting podcasts.

http://www.lenswork.com/lwb.htm

Leo


On Jan 15, 2006, at 3:55 PM, David Cochran wrote:

> There is a little magazine called LENSWORK.
>
> There are great photos that are inkjet prints. I visited a lab that  
> specializes in inkjets or glycee, something like that. I was really  
> impressed by the prints.
> But I have also seen prints by Tillman Crane in the flesh and those  
> inkjets never compared with them.
>
> On the latest issue there is a great essay "Trolling for Fools" by  
> Brooke Jensen. It has to do with the photo market and pricing
>
> http://www.lenswork.com/
>
> peace
>
> David
> On Jan 15, 2006, at 5:44 PM, GREG LORENZO wrote:
>
>> feli writes in part:
>>
>>>
>>> On Jan 15, 2006, at 11:44 AM, Ted Grant wrote:
>>>
>>>> We still have people making negative comments about inkjet prints
>>>> when they do not have the skills they've learned in the darkroom of
>>>> many years. If I had 50 years doing PS as I have in a darkroom I
>>>> imagine my B&W prints using the "tools" of PS, I suppose I could
>>>> produce inkjet prints that would leave people sucking air in
>>>> amazement, equal to when they look at my regular darkroom  
>>>> prints. ;-)
>>>
>>> It's not just a matter of skill, but also a matter of technical
>>> limitations. With the exception of perhaps the Epson K3 inks, there
>>> simply isn't a inkjet process out there (yet) that can produce  
>>> images
>>> with the same range as a wet, glossy fiber print. But we are getting
>>> there. I'm guessing we will reach that point in the next 5 years.
>>>
>>
>> I don't know when to expect inkjet output to equal the quality of  
>> a properly
>> printed silver wet print timewise, but I agree with you completely  
>> that the current technical quality is *NOT* there Yet. A  
>> 'negative' comment but true none the less.
>>
>> A lesser quality b&w print with unproven life expectency is not a  
>> print I would purchase when I have the option to acquire a print  
>> from the same image in traditional silver (assumes the original  
>> source is a b&w neg. of course). I would also be prepared to pay a  
>> premium for the latter.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Greg
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Greg
>> of
>>
>>
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In reply to: Message from gregj.lorenzo at shaw.ca (GREG LORENZO) ([Leica] re: digital treadmill)
Message from cochranpr at mac.com (David Cochran) ([Leica] re: digital treadmill)