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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Re: [Digital BW] Is there a difference?
2002-10-12 by Stephen Petegorsky