Digital BW, The Print

That was funny and I relate to all of it. Just last night Delta lost
my gitzo tripod on a flight home. I did find it though in a pile of
baggage at the back of the airport amongst a bunch of musical
instruments and golf clubs. But I'm not giving up the 4x5 or the RZ
this year.  I can't afford one of those Phase One backs. Now those I
would keep with me on the plane.

john



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Ken Carney"
<kcarney1@c...> wrote:
>
> > Part of me prefers my old air-dried "glossy" silver-print 
> > surface to a matte inkjet paper, but I would not trade away 
> > the ability to tape hang prints as opposed to dry mounting 
> > them.  I have yet to see a display print on a glossy or 
> > semi-gloss surface that did not need dry mounting or 
> > something like that.
> > 
> > Do you think a large display print on this new paper could be 
> > displayed and stay perfectly flat without dry mounting?
> > 
> > Paul
> > www.PaulRoark.com 
> 
> 	
> In the olden days, my friends would use tape or mounting corners for
their
> fiber prints, for "archival" reasons, although I dry mounted.  This
made me
> think of some of the liberating things of "going digital":  
> 
> 1. No dry mounting with heavy papers.  Dry mounting was as much fun as
> mowing the lawn.
> 
> 2. No film developing.  See above re fun quotient.  
> 
> 3. No cleaning up the darkroom.  Now I might wipe a little dust off the
> monitor or clean up a ring on the desk from a brewski if I forgot to
grab a
> CD coaster.
> 
> 4. No set film speed - just dial in as needed from 100 to 1600 or
even more
> if needed, watching the histogram.  (The film speeds were different with
> film also, but that was because of the exposure or developer used)
> 
> 5. No tripod most of the time.  Or at least a smaller tripod. 
Flying now
> with the tripod for the 8x10 camera is interesting.
> 
> 6. No baggage with tripping the shutter.  With 4gb microdrives and Photo
> Mechanic, just take some different views and edit in the PC.
> 
> 7. The ability to reproduce a print easily.  I store the soft-proof
> adjustments and it is just a matter of dropping one into the IP
queue until
> they change the paper on you.
> 
> 8. The ability to make great color prints without blowing half a day
in the
> darkroom.  No filters, just the WhiBal cards.
> 
> 9. Last, but certainly not least, no changing film holders in the hotel
> bathroom when you really want to hit the bar with your friends.
> 
> A good time to be a photographer, no?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ken Carney
> www.kencarney.com
>