Digital BW, The Print

Very nicely put. To say one is "better" than the other strikes 
me as similar to saying that an acrylic painting is "better" 
than an oil painting (or vice versa). Maybe not apples and oranges 
being compared here, but perhaps oranges and tangerines. I think 
the nature of the difference is interesting to delineate, but 
fail to see how couching the delineation in terms of which is 
"better" helps to clarify this distinction. Surely there are 
some images that even the most die-hard darkroom enthusiast might 
like better as a digital print (or vice-versa).

More anon,
David 

= = = Original message from Moreno Polloni = = =

I also find the degree of digital control to be much finer, the 
prints are
sharper, and there's better consistency from print to print.

Silver prints, however, are free from dither patterns and have 
a creamy
smoothness and subtlety of tones that I have yet to seen in a 
digital inkjet
print.


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