Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "treadwinkle 
<VOLveeta@b...>" <VOLveeta@b...> wrote:
> There are several companies out there that can take tiff files and 
> transfer to 35mm negatives.  I'm curious if anyone's given this 
> process a try and how the prints came out.  Let me hear from you!
> 
> Treadwinkle

Hi;
When I first got into this I tried that approach, having 4x5 (not 
35mm) negs made and then printing onto silver. Two different 
machines at two different shops produced less than stellar results 
in B&W. I found the fine detail to be too mushy to go over 11x14 
(from a 4x5 neg!) and the hightlight compression produced images 
with no real sparkle. I did, however, see 35mm slides from the same 
machines that looked quite good on all counts. Beats me why they 
couldn't do it in B&W.

Steve Karafyllakis

http://www.stevekphoto.com