Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Brian Ellis"
<bellis60@v...> wrote:

>...I have enlargements printed on variable contrast fiber base 
> papers, contact prints from 8x10 negatives on  Azo paper (a graded
contact 
> printing paper noted for it's beautiful tonal separation from blacks to 
> highlights), and digital prints hanging together on my walls. The
blackest 
> blacks in the digital prints look just fine and to my eyes don't
look weak 
> or washed out in comparison to the silver prints.

I just think they are different, one wouldn't go to one of them for
the same thing one might go to the other.
During one very brief period in my youth when I had disposable income,
and the price was right, I bought a Caponigro.
It has no deep silver black in it and it's range could easily be
precisely equaled on a nice quad print on good paper. But when you
look at it, you're looking through the matte frame into a three
dimensional sculptural representation of Stonehenge made out of subtly
glowing pewter.
The quad wouldn't do that. It'll do something else, maybe something
remarkable, but not that.
I honestly hope silver hangs around a very long time and people keep
using it.
Tyler