Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Frank Vincent" 
<hollidaypr@...> wrote:
>
> I think there are a couple of questions to be answered here.
> 
> First, what equipment is necessary to prevent reasonable hardware 
> limitation?  My answer has only come this year, for black and white 
archival 
> digital printing.  Since I hardly ever print bigger than 8 x 10, 
even when I 
> did darkroom work for myself, the choice is easy.  Epson R220 
printer, MIS 
> carbon inks, and my trusty Finepix 3.2 mp camera.  Download Picasa 
II for 
> free, and there you go!  Whatever appears before your camera can 
get to a 
> black and white print, even without color converting.
> 
> Second question.   What skill is necessary to recognize good images 
that 
> pass before your camera?  Here's the part that requires skill, 
taste, risk, 
> luck, experience, fear, and perseverence.  The human application of 
> technology is what we seek.  How does the person communicate?  What 
is the 
> message in that simple image?  Did I miss something?


Yes Frank, only one thing,. . . . time. It's a slow cooking kind of 
thing. Other than that, right on, right on.

Jules


> 
> My machinery prints snapshots or compositions equally well.  It's 
my side of 
> the camera that takes so much labor.
> 
> Frank Vincent
> 
> 
> > >
> > > Does anyone really want to tell me that it will require years of
> > > experience and experimentation to get a system that will take a 
good
> > > B&W image in screen, and make a large, gallery quality, 
archival print
> > > from it?
>