Digital BW, The Print

It was done before by using medium/large format POLAROID!

There are still scores of Chicago shooters using old Crown/Speed Graphics or BJs for type 59/559 film ... it's just a matter of market niche. Digital *is* a more elegant solution but the market niche was served in the pre-dit era as well.

BC
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Anthony Atkielski 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 1:26 AM
  Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Taking the plunge


  Claude writes:

  > The camera did get hot in my hands and
  > I kept cycling through cards and battery
  > recharges. All Jepegs.

  If the camera was that hot, I'd expect that you'd have an increasing problem
  with thermal noise, especially in low light.  Did you?

  > The clients were sorting through them on several
  > workstations. This type of work absolutely demanded
  > digital capture.

  It sounds well suited to digital.  How did they do it before digital cameras
  existed?

  > Also, picture packages were printed on dye sub printers.

  Dye subs look just like photo prints if they are from a decent printer.  My
  ALPS printer produced beautiful results (better than any ink-jet), but it
  was so difficult to get it to work with my PC and to get it to even load
  paper correctly that I eventually gave up.

  > This job would have been impossible (for
  > me) without digital capture.

  So how was it done before?  Or was it simply not done at all?



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