Re: [Digital BW] 35mm Prints Digtial or Darkroom was Is there a difference?
2002-10-15 by Ken Carney
Well, I've looked at (and printed) a lot of silver and palladium wet prints, as well as inkjet. Actually, it's a little like asking if watermelons are better than adverbs. Both will be good prints, but they won't look anything at all like each other. I suppose that if you printed a "silver" print on RC paper and compared it to an inkjet on similar paper, they would be similar. But then, no one would ever use RC paper for an exhibition silver print. Air-dried silver fiber paper (Seagull, Agfa or whatever), printed by a master printer, has a depth and presence that is different from any inkjet paper. A platinum or platinum/palladium print takes that one step further, since here the emulsion is truly "in" the paper. But, a fine inkjet print has its rewards also. They are just different things. Having said that, once they are behind glass some of the differences are obscured. My bet is: Once you have a truly involving image, the process, within reason, won't make that much difference. If you show it to a group of photographers, however, all bets are off. A lot of them will never see the image, unfortunately. Just my 2c. --Ken
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----- Original Message -----
From: Martin Wesley
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 2:20 AM
Subject: [Digital BW] 35mm Prints Digtial or Darkroom was Is there a difference?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bug Noir" <bugnoir2@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
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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