Digital BW, The Print

Mike,

while you were "away", I posted a report on ImagePrint in message 8371. Any 
further comments?

Are the Lyson profiles you mention for RGB or grayscale files (on their way to 
hex-black)? I assume these are provided by Colorbyte as part of IP4.

And, of course, you make a very good point. If you follow these lists you'd 
think nobody ever has time to take a single picture. We all seem buried in the 
minutiae of tech talk. But photography - wet or otherwise - has always been 
the point where art meets esoteric tech tips and tricks. With a particularly fast 
moving target like digital, we can barely afford to peacefully set-it-and-forget-it. 

But I, for one, have enjoyed some of that peace for a year now of "straight" 
piezo on 1160. Costly, imperfect (in its end-user controls), not without 
problems, but, man, so rewarding in the prints I have made.  Of course, one 
has to forget the subtleties available in such silver prints as Michael Kenna's. 
It may be a while before we get there digitally. And, yes, I have seen his prints 
up close and had the same reaction as you.

Antonis





--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Michael Kravit" 
<michael.kravit@w...> wrote:
 
> I did learn one very important thing this week....and that is as photgraphers, 
we are spending much to much time experimenting with inks and not enough 
time photographing. I attended a lecture by Michael Kenna and was once 
again in awe by this man's work.