Digital BW, The Print

Peter-

My experience is very similar to Truman's.  At 3 years experience ( if  
you ignore the ancient history of high school) I am a relative  
newcomer.  I choose digital printing three years ago precisely because  
there was LESS stuffing around to produce decent B&W prints.

For me having tried both as a newcomer ( and hence no experiential bias  
) it was relatively easy to produce a print in the wet or in the dry.   
It was/is much more difficult to produce a _good_ print in the wet than  
in the dry.


--
Kevin Gulstene



> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Truman Prevatt
> <tprevatt@m...> wrote:
>>
>> The tinkering done in inkjet printing is a drop in
>> the bucket compared to the wet darkroom.
>
> As a veteran darkroom printer, I think there is a key distinction.
> The tinkering you do in a wet darkroom is OPTIONAL for most ordinary
> prints.
>
> The difference between a wet darkroom and digital B+W printing is
> that the wet darkroom consists of a basic set of technology
> (darkroom, enlarger, easel, safelight, trays, developer, stop, fix,
> etc) that is universal and it has a standard workflow that you can
> teach anyone in an afternoon.   There are no universal or standard
> tools or processes in digital b+w.   Instead there are a zillion
> competing alternatives, each with their little band of adherents.
>
> We have plenty of people on this very forum who have tried THIS
> digital black and white system or THAT one for YEARS without getting
> satisfactory results.
>
> If you want to compare digital black and white to wet darkroom in
> terms of process and tools, you'd have to compare it to the wet
> darkroom of about 1855, when everything was still being invented and
> photgraphers were still experimenting with different technologies,
> and inventing or discovering processes as they were going along.
>
>
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