Digital BW, The Print

In a message dated 5/7/2002 9:47:22 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
tprevatt@... writes:


> When a serious buyer looks at a silver based print produced with 
> conventional photographic methods, he knows what he is getting (assuming 
> the craft that goes into the photograph is sufficient). 

How does he know what he is getting? He believes the salesman?
Nancyscans just made some gorgeous prints for me on their lightjet digital 
printer. The images are on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, the best traditionally 
processed paper on the market. I did all my retouching, dodging and burning 
in the DIM room. (Digital Image Management). I did all the work! As far as I 
am concerned, these are the best custom color prints I have ever produced. 
All they did was print the file! This is a great service, by the way, and 
extremely reasonable, which it should be , considering I did all the work. 
But you have to have a calibrated monitor, or the system doesn't work.
 I have friends who send their files out to have a negative made so they can 
produce silver gelatin. 
So having a chemically processed photo in your hands doesn't guarantee the 
buyer anything! Only that the print may not last as long as a pig or carbon 
print!
George J Kunze


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