Digital BW, The Print

I appreciate the response, Steve.  I sure wish there was a perfect 
solution for this.  Guess we'll just have to keep waiting.  
Piezotones are fine, but I'm about ready to give in and set up that 
darkroom and get backt b&w film.

Treadwinkle

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Steven 
Karafyllakis <stevek@e...>" <stevek@e...> wrote:
> --- 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