Digital BW, The Print

"Subjective" is the name of this game: everybody has valid
individualistic responses (though markets for prints have more
predictability and pattern).

I like big. The most physically beautiful photographs I've ever seen
were recent digitally enlarged (DeVere I think) Ektacolor murals (in
which the interpolation from 6X6 somehow wasn't noticable), digitally
printed Epson murals (in which the interpolation from 6X7 Fuji 7
aerial photos were obvious and part of the beauty...Adriel Helsey's
work), and Avedon's many B&W murals, optically enlarged from 8X10
negatives. 

I don't think it's typical for midsized prints (eg 16X20,20X30)to
rival good inkjet...again only subjective.  

Motivations for any 11X14 etc are mysteries to me, especially now that
big prints are so easy and cheap... I don't really have opinions about
silver in little prints. My ambivalence undoubtedly comes from the
fact that I've never appreciated a photos as precious objects, rather
than as displays of captured/created images.

Djon




--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "jnhugo"
<jacknadelle@h...> wrote:
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "jonnytenz" 
> <jonnytenz@y...> wrote:
> > 
> > I keep experimenting with B/W inkjet printing, and althought
> > they look good upfront, once I pull out one of my good silver-gel
> > print from my archive... the epson MIS on EEM falls flat.
> > 
> 
> I think you are right- an inkjet print isn't the same thing as a fine 
> silver print. To me they are more like an incredibly excellent 
> reproduction of a photograph-like the best photo gravure from the 
> masters of the past.
> As far as digital snaps go-files printed on a Noritsu type machine 
> look more like photos than snaps printed on an epson.
> Color definitely is better on a good ink printer better than any r 
> print-c print- etc.
> Jack