Digital BW, The Print

Saturday, March 20, 2004, 1:51:46 PM, you wrote:

s> Hello,

s> After extensive research and reading and re-reading Clayton's site in
s> addition to many other sites. I have decided what equipment I need in
s> order to print Black and White succesfully from 35 mm prints.

s> Eboni ink from MIS for Epson 2200
s> Epson 2200
s> Nikon Coolscan V ED
s> Cheap Flat Bed scanner to make contact sheets.
s> Epson enhanced Matte paper.
s> Vuescan software (I already have this).
s> Photoshop CS ( I already have this).
s> Negative Developing supplies (I have this)

s> I develop my own film in Rodinal. I mainly use ilford FP4+ in 35 mm.
s> I do not have a Darkroom just a changing bag and I plan to do just 
s> black and white printing.  Basically, that is my planned setup for my
s> Digital Darkroom.  I will spend a  lot of money in the next few days
s> and order this equipment.  Comments or advice is appreciated.  I 
s> consider this a starting point for my digital printing. I want to at
s> least start with good equipment that I can experiment and grow with.
s> Total cost is not much of an issue I have been saving for a while:)

s> thanks
s> Steve

Steve,

One quick comment.  Although my experience with Rodinal is fairly
limited, and I have not used it with FP4, any time I have used it I
find that the negs produced are a greater challenge to scan well.
Mostly due to overly grainy look.  But that's something you can easily
change later if you decide the same.

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Best regards,
 Richard                            mailto:richard@...