Digital BW, The Print

toomagenta@... writes:

> 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.

Galen Rowell converted to digital printing using pretty much that
path, presumably some years ago (since there's an old article on his
website telling about how he was convinced to do so; basically,
somebody showed him he'd get better results that way).  

It's a tidal wave, anybody trying to stand against it will be swept
away.  (Which is not to say that people enamored of the old processes
for their own sake won't continue to do them, and they and others
won't continue to love the old looks; after all, people still do
albumen, platinum, and even (a very few people) daguerrotype.)
-- 
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