Digital BW, The Print

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From: "Bug Noir" <bugnoir2@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 11:29 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] Is there a difference?


> If one were to use the same 35mm b&w negative to make an 11x14 print in a
> traditional chemical based darkroom and an 11x14 ink jet print (300 ppi)
> that came from a scan made from a desk top film scanner, would there be a
> qualitative difference between the prints?
>

Mike,

I am surprised your question did not raise more comment. My own interest is
mostly 4x5 and 6x7 but I have shot a lot of 35mm over the years. My darkroom
prints shrank from 11x14 to 8x10 as I did more large format work. In digital
printing just for fun I took a 35mm neg up to 13x19 and I was surprised to
find that I like big digital prints from 35mm negs more than I liked big
darkroom prints. Perhaps the ability to adjust sharpness has a lot to do
with it or it may be that with a top quality scan we can simply get more out
of the negative than you can in the darkroom.

Martin Wesley

http://www.borderless-photos.de/guests.html


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