Digital BW, The Print

I believe that this is a difficult question as they ARE different media
(meant here as plural of medium.)
 
Inkjet prints (or whatever we're calling them this week) have their own
look and characteristics.
They aren't silver prints as platinum prints aren't silver prints. I'm
quite sure some guy in 1860 said the much the same thing as he inhaled
ether from his ambrotypes.
Each photographic process from VanDykes, to salt prints, to gum
bichromates is different. Dye transfer printers hated the "look" of "C"
prints. Polaroid transfers have a uniqueness. We need to decide what
best presents the image as we saw it and use that process. I would love
to have a row of printers with VM's and Piezo and probably some custom
inksets.  
Rant over.
S.
 
Stan Shire
Associate Professor/Department Chair
Photographic Imaging
Community College of Philadelphia
Adobe Photoshop 6 A.C.E.
 
215 751-8320
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-----Original Message-----
From: torreyvosk [mailto:torrey.v@...] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 6:38 PM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] print quality: digital vs. wet darkroom
 
i'm thinking about getting into digital  B&W printing, and i can't 
seem to find any serious comparisons of print quality between 
traditonal wet darkrooms and the digital alternative.  I'm aware of 
all the benefits that computer photo editing offers, but is the final 
print truly compareable in terms of contrast, sharpness, grain, 
shadow detait, etc.?  any thoughts anyone?

thanks,

torrey  





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