Digital BW, The Print

I went the imagesetter/inkjet negative route for a while.  My take on it is
that as expensive and time-consuming as platinum prints are, I thought an
in-camera negative developed for the process was quite a bit better.  You
can buy an 8x10 field camera pretty reasonably now, and for contact prints
the lens doesn't have to be a super star.  BTW you might start off with a
less costly process like palladium (pure palladium prints are beautiful),
Zia, Van Dyke brown or similar, until you get the hang of it.  For myself, I
finally went all the way to the dark side and all the prints are digital
now.

Ken 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
> [mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On 
> Behalf Of G Guhan Gunaratnam
> Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 3:41 PM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Digital BW] Anyone using digital negatives to make 
> Platinum prints?
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I know this is a little OT, but not completely, so I was 
> hoping someone might want to chime in if they have experience 
> making digital negs with an inkjet/imagesetter and then 
> making platinum prints with them.
> 
> Please let me know on/off the board.  I'm reading Dan's book 
> now, but I'm a youngun and don't have a traditional darkroom. 
>  That could change though with prices as low as they are.
> 
> Any insights, annoyances, wishes, etc with the process are 
> appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Guhan

I've been experimenting with Van Dyke Brown using digital negatives. I 
am not using Mark Nelson or Dan Burkholder's systems, but am "winging 
it" and so far the (limited) results are very promising.

I am currently using the MIS-EZ inks in an Epson C86 and printing on 
Pictorico OHP. The digital negatives look awful when printed with 
canned settings, but when I dial down "brightness" the ink density is 
much improved.

Jordan

G Guhan Gunaratnam wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I know this is a little OT, but not completely, so I was hoping someone
> might want to chime in if they have experience making digital negs with an
> inkjet/imagesetter and then making platinum prints with them.
> 
> Please let me know on/off the board.  I'm reading Dan's book now, but I'm a
> youngun and don't have a traditional darkroom.  That could change though
> with prices as low as they are.
> 
> Any insights, annoyances, wishes, etc with the process are appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Guhan
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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