Digital BW, The Print

I think the book would be well worth your time (www.danburkholder.com).  I have the first and second editions and learned about as much about Photoshop as making digital negs.  This process really works best, IMO, with alternate processes such as pt/pd or Van Dyke.  But remember, with these processes you are using textured paper that hides a lot of faults.  Also, pt/pd to begin with has a much greater tonal range than silver.  I have tried this both with contact negs produced by an imagesetter, and inkjet negs.  Of course, comparing the imagesetter 8x10 contact neg to a properly developed in-camera 8x10 neg, there was no contest, no matter how much work you can do in Photoshop.  I threw in the towel before trying this with a 4800 dpi imagesetter, and there things might have been different.  Certainly there is nothing wrong with the concept of enlarging negs for contact printing.  The best palladium prints I have ever seen in person were 20x24 negs produced in the darkroom from a 6x7cm original neg (David Kennedy, www.davidmichaelkennedy.com).

  --Ken
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Hugh Crymble 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2002 10:26 AM
  Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: Has anyone ever tried digital negatives?


  on 12/29/02 10:57 AM, treadwinkle <VOLveeta@...> at
  VOLveeta@... wrote:

  Not to my knowledge, but I'd love to see if this is possible.  It
  would be a dream come true if we could reach that point.

  treadwinkle

  Making Digital Negatives for Contact Printing by Dan Burkholder appears to
  deal with this topic, although I have not seen the book.

  Hugh




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