Digital BW, The Print

Added musings:

  I'd recently read a treatise on how Americans have become paralyzed
because we have too many choices in everything. I can fondly remember
the 'good old days' when my friends were testing every new film that
appeared. I just stuck to Tri-X for B&W, the older Kodachrome 25
(Circa 1960's-70s) for slides (I've still not seen a more accurate
color film hit the market.) and either VPS 160 or NPS 160 for color negs.)
 I mention this because I don't want to get 'lost' in all the choices
for paper to print B&W on. 
  :)
 The tech explosion has been a wonder. A far cry from my early
darkroom years developing my dad's Plus-X and Anscochrome in the
darkroom! (This goes back to the early '50s!)
 Awww..I'm giving away my age, now.
 Best
 Ginny


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Clayton Jones"
<cj@...> wrote:
>
> Hello Ginny,
> 
> >...when doing Tri-X development times/ASA calibration on my
> >Pentax 6X7.
> 
> Warms my heart! <g>.  The P67 was my primary picture machine for
> years (superb lenses), and good old wonderful Tri-X the film of
> choice.  What a great combination.  I sort of miss it (just temporary
> nostalgia <g>), but I got tired of hauling heavy gear around (getting
> older and have accumulated some back and shoulder problems).  The
> carbon fiber tripod is a great invention!
> 
> 
> >...with my older Epson printers, I always had excellent results
> >letting the printer driver control the output rather than PS. 
> >I was very pleased with how easy it was. 
> 
> It still can be with the 2400 and ABW.  Please have a look at the 2400
> workflow article (#9) at the web link below.  It produces very fine
> results without requiring a densitometer and icc curves.  As for
> paper, Epson's Velvet Fine Art (VFA) works beautifully with the K3
> inks.  Definitely worth trying a box.  Another favorite of mine for K3
> is Merlin Natural from Hawk Mtn (not as good dmax as VFA, but a
> beautiful long scale that can produce a platinum look with a variety
> of convincing color tones - really pretty).   I also use Dourian (same
> as PhotoRag), Condor BW, and Aurora Art - just depends on the image.
> 
> I hope this helps.
> 
> Regards,
> Clayton
> 
> 
> Info on black and white digital printing at    
> http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm
>