Digital BW, The Print

Jim,

Martin mentioned these curves back on 3/12 and there were a couple of
follow-up posts.

My experience with the VM inks until a few weeks ago was limited to antique
photo restoration. But a few weeks ago I began experimenting with BW
photography. I started with Paul's curves and was working on Photo Rag, ESFA
and Museo.

I downloaded Tyler's curves a couple of weeks ago after Martin mentioned
them and have been experimenting, mostly on Photo Rag and to a lesser degree
ESFA. I have some Museo, but haven't tried them with that paper yet.

Since I've never used EAM I probably wasn't getting optimal results with
Paul's curves on the Photo Rag or ESFA, but I was still pleased. However,
Tyler's crv08 curve gives me the best prints I've produced to date, using
these inks and Paul's workflow on Photo Rag. I think it's phenomenal. ESFA
isn't too far behind.

I experimented briefly with the warm02 curve and it looked good as well, but
the cld01 was hopelessly posterized.

Hope this helps...

Tom Keesling