Digital BW, The Print

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| For me, I have been playing around with dabbing my thumb into
| a pile of lead pencil trimmings, to get a thumbprint thing going. I
| press my thumb into the area just below my signature. Ink
| seemed to be too strong and dark, but lead seems about right;
| kinda light grey. Just to show that I made the print. I think I started
| to notice this factor when I started looking at EWeston prints;
| those "vintage" prints were made by him, and then those other
| ones followed later, made by his son. The vintage ones always
| seemed so much "better"; but that's probably only my projection.
| I'm sure they were technically fine, maybe even better tonally. But
| to know that EW made them, with that wacky setup in that cabin
| in Carmel, just made them SO much sweeter.

Hello,

Do you think that the difference between the "original" Weston prints and
the later ones might be the difference in the quality of the photographic
papers. Older papers had more silver, etc.

This is a question, not a statement, maybe it just seems that way.

John in OKC