Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/04/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Pablo, I see that HP has an application for making digital negatives on the Z3200, for silver and pt/pd. Can you tell us why the HP is preferable to the Epson for this purpose? Thx for any information. Ken On 4/20/2014 6:22 PM, Pablo Kolodny wrote: > I do mine but with an HP. Didn't like what others do with Epson either. > I know of some of Erwitt's also done with HP, these just look like what > pt/pd should. As you say, rich tonal range and deep blacks > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Apr 20, 2014, at 7:35 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> >> wrote: >> >> I'd do this and not go the Epson route. Work from enlarged Negs. I viewed >> some of these Platinum prints from Epson "negs" at the AIPAD show at the >> Park Ave Armory last week or so and they are washed out looking and don't >> look at all good. Including the ones done to Elliot Erwitt iconic work. An >> excuse to sell prints with another zero at the end. I'm a big fan of his I >> don't think he has much to do with this. >> >> Platinum prints are supposed to be rich and dark. Not the opposite. And >> incredibly sharp. Not the opposite. > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information