Digital BW, The Print

Paul thank you for your comments. As to B&W it has been the only thing I
have shot since I was 12 years old. I am 52 now and lucky to be here. I have
worked in the medium all of that time both as a photographer and printer. I
have worked in printing, managing and exploring the new technologies and the
traditional work procedures for over thirty years. I have worked with the
famous and the not so famous artists and photographers bringing their life's
work to their audiences. From fine prints to coffee table books and catalogs
of their work. I was experimenting 30 years ago with quadtones on litho
presses when most of the world did not even know what a duotone or quadtone
was. I had the first Mac that ever was shipped into the State of Michigan
and wrote my own software to run postscript composed pages before there were
any IP or page layout programs for those machines to make them do what we
wanted out of them. We wrote the language programs need to produce fully
composed films 28 x 40"  off Scitex plotters and image setters using 300
line screens with dots so fine you had a hard time finding them with a
loupe. We also designed color programs for 40" process cameras driven by our
home made black boxes and home grown software created by us. These programs
were all done before there was anything thereto buy out off the can. Many of
these things that I was a part of were picked up by the big companies as we
developed them in actual production applications we were using to produce
commercial work every day. People like Scitex and 3M and Kodak were regular
visitors to our shop and production meetings. Do you remember "Lasers in
Graphics?" A cutting edge seminar and forum in the early 80s that predicted
flat bed scanners and the arrival of desk top scanning ten years before it
became a reality for the main stream. People laughed at me when we addressed
this issue. Our lead engineer was one of the people that made that happen.
And we were retiring our huge hell drum scanners that cost $1,00o,000 and
filled a room and took a $60,000 a year operator to make it work. It all
looks and sounds so simple now with all that has been developed and marketed
to fed our perceived need. I was was a part of it and enjoyed every new
moment of it.

It all comes down to this its not your D-Max it is your image and what you
do with it and that it satisfies your creative desire for it to say what you
want it to say. That is an individual issue.

Thanks for your time

Charlie
  -----Original Message-----
  From: Paul D. DeRocco [mailto:pderocco@...]
  Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 10:05 PM
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
  Subject: RE: [Digital BW] Re: PhotoShop CS for $299


  > From: Susan Dennis [mailto:scprints@bellsouth.net]
  >
  > Paul,
  >
  > No this is not a joke. I use a laptop from my be that has Susan's name
on
  > it. I use it because I am disabled and bed bound. I do not have the use
of
  > my legs any more and can not get to the desk top computer on the
  > other side of the room that use to be mine.

  You don't have to leave or anything--we're actually pretty good-natured
  here. As to your e-mail address, it's not too hard to change the name that
  gets tacked onto your address--since you use Outlook, it's under
  Tools->Accounts->Properties. If you swap back and forth between machines,
  perhaps changing the friendly name to "Susan and Charlie Dennis" would be
a
  good idea.

  Anyway, if you're into B&W, this is the place to be, so feel free to join
in
  the discussion.

  --

  Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
  Paul                mailto:pderocco@...



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