Digital BW, The Print

What is silver extrusion?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Evelyn Grant" <ingamom@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 21:53
Subject: RE: [Digital BW] Re: Ink-jet better than wet prints (was Digital
stuff)


> I think it depends on what aspect of photography
> you're into. 85% to 90% of my work is copy and
> restoration of old photos. I get much better results
> from a digital process than I ever did with silver.
> Especially with the originals that are so faded out or
> have so much silver extrusion that copying with film
> just makes a different kind of mess. The digital
> prints on Photo rag 308 have almost a three
> dimensional look. My clients love it. The biggest
> problem I have is overcoming posterization with prints
> that originally were high contrast and due to poor
> processing the highlights are gone and the shadows are
> thick with silver extrusion. But I can play with
> curves and usually get around it. If it's beyond help
> I can often shoot a copy neg and scan that. No way am
> I ever going back to a smelly wet darkroom.
>
> Evelyn
>
> > --- scott lanes <scott@...> wrote:
> > > At 07:58 AM 5/21/2003 -0700,
> > paul.roark@...
> > > wrote:
> > > >I sure would not go back, and I'll bet most of
> > the
> > > people on this
> > > >list have no intention of going back to silver
> > > printing for most of their
> > > >work.
> > >
>
> > > For the record, i am doing way more digital output
> > > than wet darkroom these
> > > days too, but i still think that a well printed
> > > silver print still looks
> > > better than a well printed inkjet print. Anyone
> > > disagree? Maybe that will
> > > change, but for now......
> > >
> > >
>
>
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