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RE: [Digital BW] Is there a difference?

2002-10-14 by Austin Franklin

Hi Jerry,

At it again, eh? ;-)

> If you know what you are doing, the digital print will be:

> sharper,

Possibly, but that may or may not relate to reality.

> have
> better shadow and highlight detail,

Er, no.  If you have concluded that, Jerry, you weren't looking at any very
good film images.

> and since you can put it on any of
> hundreds of different papers, will probably be more "good looking" than
> the darkroom print.

Yeah, but you can scan film, and still print on any of the hundreds of
different papers...

You seem to lump film plus chemical prints into one category, and compare
that to an entirely digital workflow, instead of realizing that people scan
film, and print digitally, and therefore there is yet another choice.

Regards,

Austin

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