Digital BW, The Print

I went the imagesetter/inkjet negative route for a while.  My take on it is
that as expensive and time-consuming as platinum prints are, I thought an
in-camera negative developed for the process was quite a bit better.  You
can buy an 8x10 field camera pretty reasonably now, and for contact prints
the lens doesn't have to be a super star.  BTW you might start off with a
less costly process like palladium (pure palladium prints are beautiful),
Zia, Van Dyke brown or similar, until you get the hang of it.  For myself, I
finally went all the way to the dark side and all the prints are digital
now.

Ken 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
> [mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On 
> Behalf Of G Guhan Gunaratnam
> Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 3:41 PM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Digital BW] Anyone using digital negatives to make 
> Platinum prints?
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I know this is a little OT, but not completely, so I was 
> hoping someone might want to chime in if they have experience 
> making digital negs with an inkjet/imagesetter and then 
> making platinum prints with them.
> 
> Please let me know on/off the board.  I'm reading Dan's book 
> now, but I'm a youngun and don't have a traditional darkroom. 
>  That could change though with prices as low as they are.
> 
> Any insights, annoyances, wishes, etc with the process are 
> appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Guhan