Digital BW, The Print

Ron,

I have yet to try the OHP for contact negatives. You say that you are using
it for silver as well as platinum. How would you describe the quality for
silver prints? What printer and inkset are you using to make the negatives?

Thanks

Scott

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Landucci" <ron@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 2:20 PM
Subject: RE: [Digital BW] Degree of Enlargement, Digital vs Silver


> Martin,
>
> I have a state-of-the-art ZBE color enlarger with a Condit pin
registration
> masking negative carrier that I'll probably never stick another piece of
> film into.  Does that convey my opinion?  <g>
>
> I'm having great success making 16x20 digital negatives on Pictorico OHP
> film for both silver and platinum printing.  I agree that the first
method,
> i.e., contact printing is the way to go.  Why introduce optics and
alignment
> issues where you don't need them?
>
> And you forgot to mention that digital USM is infinitely better and easier
> than analog methods.
>
> Ron
>
>   > While there may be loss of sharpness/resolution between the original
>   > negative and the scan, there seems to be little loss between scan and
>   > final print. My thought is that the total loss in sharpness in the
>   > negative-to-scanner-to-printer process may be less than the loss in
>   > the negative-enlarger-silver paper process.
>
>   > This would also suggest that if your final output for your digital
>   > file will be silver gelatin,  a neg-scan-digital printer-contact neg-
>   > silver paper might offer better sharpness over a neg-scan-digital
>   > printer-enlarging neg-enlarger-silver paper.
>
>   > Does any of this sound reasonable?
>
>   > Martin
>
>
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