Digital BW, The Print

Let's NOT tie this to MIS...I posted hoping there was interest in B&W
photographic technique as it applies to inkjet printing. MIS is just a
product and it appears certain to become further marginalized by
advancing technology. Modern times, cookie crumbling etc. 

Djon

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Scott McLoughlin
<scott@a...> wrote:
> To tie this back to the MIS and obsolescence thread, the real
> threat from Epson's new LLK and B&W printing driver is the
> sheer convenience.

There's no "threat" in that. 

> 
> Nothing wrong with densitometers and the like, but I believe
> that has to become some kind of "advanced mode" of activity
> on top of or beyond a still very capable but much more convenient
> mode of working with digital B&W printing.

It's not an "advanced mode," it's just a particular type of thinking
that's evidently not correlated closely with dreaming, images.

Only a certain minority have ever bought into densitometry...that came
along as Ansel was fading. It's a niche.

The major museums rarely show Ansel's students: they show the people
who put most of their energy into the photograph itself.

IMO, of course.  Djon