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RE: [Digital BW] Re: John Sexton's comment on B&W print

2005-08-20 by Ken Carney

> 
> I don't share the opinion often expressed that monochrome ink 
> jet prints and silver prints are two entirely different 
> animals. I've exhbited both side by side and when they're 
> under glass it's pretty much impossible for anyone except 
> perhaps another digital printer to tell which is which.

Another photographer will probably never see your image anyway, especially
the ones that carry a loupe around. One of the finest platinum printers I
have known lived near Ansel Adams.  He was convinced the Ansel never saw any
of his images because of his Ansel's bias against platinum.  And they are
superb images.

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