Digital BW, The Print

Hay !! 

I have no problem with your point. I see the digital file as un-lossey contact negative. I used this technique with my old Gemni Star 80 back in the '80s printing on liquid light. You can serve your image on the platter that suits the image. I played around with internegs alot in my stinky finger days.  How well this really works nowdays, I don't know yet with my budget. But since getting back into photography, I determined that my inkjets should make very good large contact sheets to make use of the wet paper process. Just for the look (blacks) that many of us are accustomed to.

Cheers !!

gar

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On 9/29/2008 at 3:40 PM djon43 wrote:

>gar, amusing, but maybe you missed my point :-)
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>My point: comparing a scan's inkjet to a contact print isn't as
>relevant as comparing a scan's inkjet to a darkroom enlargemtent. 
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>Darkroom enlargements using superior enlarging lenses are more lossey
>detail-wise than inkjets from reasonably OK scans (eg using Epson
>flatbeds with 6X7 or 4000ppi Nikon with 35mm). This is most obvious in
>the corners/edges, but it applies to the center as well. That's one of
>the reasons inkjets can look wonderful at sizes where enlarged murals
> turn to mud. 
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