Digital BW, The Print

No, you're not crazy.  I don't need no stinking color either.  QTR and K7 are all I need.

Harry


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "the_des_bois" <thedesbois@...> 
wrote:
>
> Hello,
> 
> This might be OT... but hey... 
> 
> Am I going crazy? 
> 
> I started photography in 1986 with the classic Nikon FM2 and Tri-X.
> Wet darkroom etc. Love at first sight.
> 
> Now with digital... I find it very easy to create color photographs...
> until I get to the printing. I never seem to like the output.
> Calibrated monitor, custom profile for printer etc. Gloss I don't
> like. Matte paper always. I just hate having to fiddle with the color
> adjustments and color filters etc.
> 
> Am I already an old school old photographer at 38? Why is it that
> whenever I set my printer to color again, full of hope, I get pissed
> in a couple of days and want to throw the machine out the window?
> 
> Then I come back to pure carbon printing... QTR... simple, elegant,
> reliable... and I calm myself... until my next color crazy moment...
> 
> Am I the only one?  ;-)
> 
> Denis
>