Digital BW, The Print

Yes Paul.

I believe your speculation is correct. People printing and teaching
platinum in the past stated things like: "It requires a stiff
negative. One with much greater density range than normal silver papers."

I think also that the "look" of the matt surface papers used for it
has a lot to do with it's mystique as well. Showing it under glass is
pretty much a negation of one of it's perceived qualities.

It would seem that glass becomes something of a leveling factor in
displaying prints of various types. Maybe there should be a law? :)
Bite my tongue.

Regards
Duane



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Roark"
<paul.roark@v...> wrote
> 
> But, of course, in the old days before we had lots of paper grades and
> scanners that can capture dynamic ranges of about 13 stops (with
> questionable quality at the ends of the range), perhaps the platinum
print
> was able to capture a range of tones that exceeded what the other
available
> technologies were able to deal with.
> 
>