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35mm Prints Digtial or Darkroom was Is there a difference?

2002-10-13 by Martin Wesley

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From: "Bug Noir" <bugnoir2@...>
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Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 11:29 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] Is there a difference?

> If one were to use the same 35mm b&w negative to make an 11x14 print in a
> traditional chemical based darkroom and an 11x14 ink jet print (300 ppi)
> that came from a scan made from a desk top film scanner, would there be a
> qualitative difference between the prints?
>

Mike,

I am surprised your question did not raise more comment. My own interest is
mostly 4x5 and 6x7 but I have shot a lot of 35mm over the years. My darkroom
prints shrank from 11x14 to 8x10 as I did more large format work. In digital
printing just for fun I took a 35mm neg up to 13x19 and I was surprised to
find that I like big digital prints from 35mm negs more than I liked big
darkroom prints. Perhaps the ability to adjust sharpness has a lot to do
with it or it may be that with a top quality scan we can simply get more out
of the negative than you can in the darkroom.

Martin Wesley

http://www.borderless-photos.de/guests.html

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Re: 35mm Prints Digtial or Darkroom was Is there a difference?

2002-10-15 by Rick Schiller

I'd just like to say that Ken Carney's comments on this are really on the
mark.  Each does stand on his own.   I would like to add this, though: as
digitally printing gets better and easier, the craft of darkroom printing
may fade.  And this would be unfortunate because to my eye no digital print
quite matches a well done fiber-based wet print.   But we will all become
used to digital prints, and in areas such as sharpness and tonality, the
digital print can equal the darkroom print if done properly.

Rick Schiller

Digital BW, The Print

35mm Prints Digtial or Darkroom was Is there a difference?

35mm Prints Digtial or Darkroom was Is there a difference?

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