Digital BW, The Print

Hi Stan,

>Dontcha love this stuff.
>This list gives me more technical and intellectual stimulation than I
>get at the college and it's pretty intense there.
>Half of our faculty are major techies (Brooks and RIT) and the rest
>are the result of art/photo MFA programs. The tech contingent spends
>lunch comparing dLogE curves, and I'm teaching our oldest faculty
>member how to build profiles. The artsy folk are looking at prints
and >deciding if Somerset Velvet or Photorag works best with the image
from >a scan of a pinhole paper neg.

Reminds me of the instructions for how to tell the difference between
a mathematician and an engineer:

You have them sit at either end of a long sofa, and exactly in the
middle you place a sack with a million dollars in it.  You tell them
that in a series of successive moves they each can move one half the
distance toward the sack.  Whichever one gets there first gets to keep
the money.

The mathematician immediately gets up, throws his hands up in a
gesture of futility, and walks out saying, "That's ridiculous.  Anyone
with even a glimmer of intelligence knows that if you keep moving half
the distance you'll never get there.  The engineer picks up the sack
and walks out saying, "That's close enough for all practical purposes"

Regards, - cj