Digital BW, The Print

Ironically, it's this idea, or an earlier version of it, that got me  
into digital in the very beginning, with Dan Burkholder's book,  
except that those negs were for contact printing.  I tried, got bad  
results, and realized that working that way wasn't for me.  At the  
time the scanning and printing tools weren't adequate or affordable  
enough to make an enlargeable neg- I'm talking the Stylus Pro XL and  
back when a 1,000 ppi Agfa desktop printer cost $5,000.  So I gave up  
with that idea.  Now I'm intrigued to learn that it can be done- is a  
Fuji Frontier one of those lab-only scanners?  Have you done this on  
something like a Howtek 4500?  But you have to contact print?  What  
happens when you try to enlarge the Frontier neg?  I'm not fond of  
8x10 prints...

thanks for the info.  Interesting.  Not sure that I'll set another  
wet darkroom up, but as I say, it was my first love.

James


On Dec 22, 2007, at 4:41 PM, Le Globe Trotteur wrote:

> That's why I create digital negative. The best of both worlds. I'm  
> currently in front of photoshop and in the darkroom. I shoot Fuji  
> Pro and the new kodack portra. If you have these films scanned on a  
> Fuji Frontier, you get no grain. It's beautiful. I do portraits so  
> I like Film better.
> I go in photoshop, convert to B&W, dodge burn....Then I print  
> another contact neg on my Epson R220. I go under my enlarger and  
> turn on the light to expose my Ilford Fiber paper (contact print).  
> I process it in my wet darkroom and I get a print that matches the  
> one on my monitor.
> Just my 0.02...Not starting a new thread on digital vs analog debate.
>



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