Digital BW, The Print

will gibson wrote:
> But in my opinion, these materials still 
> aren't good enough to hang next to silver prints without suffering in 
> the comparison.
>   
Why will they suffer? Why the comparison? Inkjet prints aren't wannabe 
silver gelatin prints!

The two technologies have little in common. Why this insistence by so 
many of us (it's certainly not just Will -- he just said it so much more 
succinctly than I could have) that inkjet emulate a "look" from another 
technology? Why can't inkjet prints look like inkjet prints? What is so 
wrong with that?

If people really want the look of an air dried glossy silver gelatin 
print they should return to the darkroom and make the real thing. At 
least then they'd have an authentic silver print, and not an imitation.

When will we embrace what inkjet prints can do? Instead of looking to 
the past, when will we start looking to the future?
-- 
Bruce Watson
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