Digital BW, The Print

Carl,

Thanks for posting that Lens Work essay.Very interestng. That was nice
to have and I think I'll print it out and give it to any skeptical
customers.Of course we will be hearing more and more talk like that.

The one thing that remains interesting is that right now the most
talked about reference to high quality pigment inkjet monochrome
output usually couples it with a rag paper like Photo Rag etc, and
like referenced, puts it closer to the photogravue and platinum realm
than Ilford Gallerie,etc, for instance. So, I think right now the
comparison between inkjet and silver monochrome ouptut is greatly
influenced by the lack of a good hard glossy substrate to work with.
Kodak has that new glossy paper out there which pretty much removes
the optical flaws of inkjet gloss, but no one seems to know much about
its permanece and I haven't tried monochrome with it yet, but will.

John 



All of these techniques are equally valid to me and can be equally
beautuful. But not are equally safe or convinient to work with.



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Peter De Smidt
<pdesmidt@T...> wrote:
> Just some thoughts:
> 
> First, if you are happy with what you're producing, don't worry what 
> other people think, even if they're famous.
> 
> Second, just because someone has a stake in a certain position, it 
> doesn't follow that what they think or say is wrong.  To think so would 
> be to commit the fallacy of ad hominem circumstantial.
> 
> Third, platinum printing didn't die when most photograhers switched to 
> silver gelatin papers.
> 
> Happy printing,
> Peter