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Re: [Digital BW] Is there a difference?

2002-10-12 by Stephen Petegorsky

Mike - I don't mean to avoid giving your question a direct answer, but it
would depend on the nature of the negative and the skills one would have as
a darkroom printer, a scanner of b&w negatives, and a maker of digital
prints.  If it were something less than a perfect negative, there is no
question that you would have far more control in the computer than in the
darkroom.  If you had decent equipment for both approaches and knew how to
use it, you could end up making a wet print and a digital print that each
had a lot of integrity.  They will not look identical, and whether or not
that difference is a good thing is a largely a matter of taste.

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