Digital BW, The Print

Thanks to all for their words of encouragement and advice. I'll keep all of it in mind as I continue to explore this new path to B&W printing.

Rusty

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "mrjimbo" <mrjimbo@...> wrote:
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> Phillip,
> I read your post twice.. Words of wisdom for sure.. To many want instant gratification without really learning and understanding the process.. 
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> j 
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>   From: Phillip Kimble 
>   To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 10:30 PM
>   Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Talk about intimidating
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>   Rusty,
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>   First & foremost, welcome to the "dark side". Er, I mean the "carbon" side of 
>   life. The processes and technology can be a bit overwhelming. It is no different 
>   than spending hours trying to perfect the spooling of film onto the wire spool 
>   or perfecting contact printing. No different than trying to understand why teh 
>   print has a slight yellow tinit.
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>   As in any trade, to learn requires pateince and time. To become expert requires 
>   learning. To become a master requires vision. We are or have all gone through 
>   the same learning curve. The trick is to print, observe, understand, and try 
>   again. Quite simple if you ask most but rather difficult to become much more 
>   than a novice at the skill. To seek is to understand and to understand is to 
>   have patience. Nothing is for free and everything that is for free is not 
>   worthwhile. Ask and we shall try to help. We ask that you simply try.
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>   From: Rusty Sterling <rustysterling@...>
>   To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
>   Sent: Fri, February 25, 2011 11:33:27 AM
>   Subject: [Digital BW] Talk about intimidating
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>   I made a conscious decision at the beginning of this year to focus exclusively 
>   (except for client needs) on BW photography. Printing certainly has been an 
>   issue, although the Epson R2880 with ABW has helped a lot in that regard.
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>   So now I have read all of the Paul Roark articles on his site and Clayton Jones 
>   articles. I not only feel intimidated by the technology but thoroughly confused 
>   by some of the procedures.
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>   Obviously some of this stuff was written a few years ago and there have been 
>   some changes. When I read some of the articles and look at the screens on my Mac 
>   some things just are not there as described. So I try and extrapolate what I can 
>   and try and find something equivalent -- not always successfully.
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>   Meantime, I'm using my old R200 to print BO until my MIS inksets arrive. I get 
>   some banding that I'm not happy with but you have to look very closely to see 
>   it. In general, though, thanks to some settings outlined by Jones, I'm seeing 
>   better results both on the R200 and 2880.
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>   Nonetheless, I feel a lot of confusion, have a lot of questions, and experience 
>   some frustration trying to soak it all in for this process.
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>   But it is important to me to get back to my BW roots. The difference is that I 
>   worked in a darkroom then and digital is such a different animal. 
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>   Just venting a bit. ;^)
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