Digital BW, The Print

Off topic, but Michael Smith has commented about the
same issue.  Cole used enlarging papers (much to the
discredit of the original images), while EW used
contact (azo/convira) papers.  

see www.michaelandpaula.com

Don


--- Ken Carney <kcarney1@...> wrote:
> Interesting thread, as I sit here trying to figure
> out how to make b&w
> prints on the 2200.  I've watched Cole make contact
> prints from EW negs,
> kleenex wrapped around a single light bulb, Amidol
> and the whole nine yards.
> The problem was that he couldn't duplicate the
> particular silver grades that
> EW used.  It's tough to find grade 0...there are VC
> filters but that would
> be heresy.  The other day I downloaded a 10mb file
> of the Dorothea Lange
> "Migrant Farm Worker" from the FMA site, airbrushed
> out the thumb in the
> right side and touched up the contrast a bit. 
> Another thing I'll burn for.
> 
> Someone asked EW what his favorite photo equipment
> was -- the answer was his
> dry-mount press.  60-70 years can change a lot.  For
> the better I hope,
> though those old prints still tug at the
> heart-strings for old farts like
> me.  Enough nostalgia - email off to Colorbyte to
> see when IP6 is coming out
> for XP.  



	
		
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