Digital BW, The Print

From:  Mark Savoia

"David, Check my post again, I did not say we make any prints that are not
toned. Quote: We still print silver here for clients and the only real
reason for doing a slight selenium toning is for archival reasons, not to
get the print to be more "neutral"."

I misunderstood. I thought you were saying that you only toned sometimes.
Did you see pdesmidt's post? You may find that article he mentions
interesting. Apparently, light selenium toning, especially with Kodak's
'current' formulation, may not provide significant protection, after all. I
always used selenium to near completion, so no problem for me, but lots of
other people used a far more subtle tone. They may come to regret it.

"BTW, we all have our idea of what colors colors are, like describing the
blue of the sky is blue, pretty impossible in words. So green to you might
not be green to somebody else. I am guilty of this too by making my comment
to you that silver prints are not green (to me)."

I accept the fact that you may not see the green, but it is there
nonetheless. I have often had to show people the green in their images. It
isn't all that subtle, but then, I refer back to my fluorescent light
example. To me it is glaring. To some, it is all but invisible.

David Kachel

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