Digital BW, The Print

Thanks, Jimbo. One of the architects I did a project for is familiar with HABS, and she's been very supportive of my work. I think I do understand their standards.. it's just that I see sort of a Catch-22. Maybe I said that in my original post (can't see it now!) but the Register said a few months ago they would accept my carbon ink prints. But in order to make those prints I had to alter the original files and they want unaltered files. That's my dilemma. Of course I did save the original files and will probably end up submitting those along with the "printer optimized files" I used to produce the carbon ink prints.

As for negatives... one approach I used a while back was to shoot "in parallel". Once my tripod was in place I mounted my digital camera and took color... then I swapped it for a film camera loaded with black and white film. Then I had the best of both worlds... I could scan the negative and get a good quality carbon ink print from that to submit along with the color digital print.

I'm encouraged by what you say about these organizations now accepting carbon ink prints. Can you provide me with more information on that, like which organizations are doing that for example?

Thanks for the feedback!

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "mrjimbo" <mrjimbo@...> wrote:
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> Paul ,
> It's not as bad as you think.. I suspect you need to talk to a few other offices.. Specifically if your shooting Historic building's they must conform to the HABS standard.. Other offices have different standards depending upon their needs.. Try to understand their standards and then the why of them.. They are moving somewhat actually.. For Historic Building's they typically don't want a color negatine.. B&W is their standard.. That neg will store for 500 years when properly done in little to no space.. The good news is that they are accepting pure carbon ink prints now so hurray.. 
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> jimbo