Digital BW, The Print

Chris,

Yes the book is one of the best I have ever read and used. Making Digital
negs for printing is a way that will open up your eyes to a great
alternative to the traditional way of doing fine prints. I have used this
method making 16x20 prints with outstanding results. The curves he uses for
producing silver prints are right on in my book. I used a large format image
setter to produce my negs and then used a home made contact frame in my
darkroom to produce the silver prints. Once you have a properly digitized
and corrected file the neg you make requires nothing else to make your
prints consistent with the same information in them time and again. You
should go to the LensWork web site and buy some of the sample prints they
make this way and judge for your self. They are cheap and quite stunning.
All their prints that are sold there by the artist are produced in this way.
That is except for the gravures.

I come from a graphic arts and commercial printing background and understand
the process that is used and have produced prints like this for close to 30
years. Putting a silver print made in the traditional way in the darkroom
next to one of my image setter prints can not be told which is which. Our
job at the plants was to create negs to be used in the printing process that
were as good or better than the original for reproduction printing. We
printed on press images by Adams, Weston, and Edward Curtis to mention a
few.

The big nut for me to crack now that I have sold the Scitex image setter is
paying the $100.00 for a negative from a service bureau, and in some places
finding a service bureau that still outputs film. Most large commercial
printers can still output film and can proof your neg on white print
material that will give you a good indication of what you will get on silver
print materials in your darkroom.

If you add all the costs up between to two ways and account for time and
attach a dollar value to it, you will be using the digital negative to make
your prints.

Charlie Dennis
  -----Original Message-----
  From: Randy Rancier [mailto:rrancier@...]
  Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2004 12:27 AM
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
  Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Digital Negatives


  You might want to check out Dan Burkholders web site
  http://www.danburkholder.com/ he has a book "Making Digital
  Negatives for Contact Prints.  He does mostly platinum prints, but
  there is no reason why you wouldn't be able to creat negs that would
  work for silver prints as well.  You would definately want to make
  your negs big enough for contact printing, for reasons I belive that
  are obvious.  I haven't made any digital negs yet but I plan to in
  the future.

  --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Chris Hargens"
  <chargens@s...> wrote:
  > I'm thinking again about trying to print my BW stuff using digital
  > negatives rather than paper. I figure that this way -- using a
  2200
  > with color ultrachromes loaded --I can get the look I want (air-
  dried
  > fiber) and avoid most of the problems (changing color to BW inks,
  > clogs, occasional posterization and flatness in midtones) that
  come
  > with dedicated BW inksets. As I mentioned in a previous post, I
  like
  > the BO look on matte paper, but I find that with certain kinds of
  > photos the dots become distracting. Anyway, I'd be interested in
  > hearing about how difficult the whole digital negative procedure
  is --
  > Although I've done a fair amount of darkroom work, I'm not quite
  sure
  > about how much trial and error is involved in getting from an
  > acceptable scanned negative & PS file, to a digital negative, and
  > then to the final print. Any advice or shared experience would be
  > appreciated.
  >
  > Chris Hargens



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