Digital BW, The Print

Hello All,

As a point of interest to those in the group (and a shameless self promotion),
I'd like to invite anyone who gets to the San Diego area from Sept. 16 to Nov. 12
to check out my part of the current exhibition at the Ordover Gallery at the San 
Diego Natural History Museum in Balboa Park. I'm showing ten black and whites of 
nature/scenic subject matter as part a show headlined by a major retrospective 
of Galen Rowell's pioneering wilderness images (in color).

My prints were made with my humble R1800 on Hahnemuehle Pearl and are 
surprisingly metamerism free. This is my first showing of digitally printed 
black and whites (all from original 120 and 4x5 B/W negs). I'd be grateful for 
any feedback of those able to see the show.

If you're in town on Saturday the 16th for the opening, email me off-list and 
I'll send you an evite to get you into the museum free of charge.

You can check for more info at www.sdnhm.org
and www.ordovergallery.com

Thanx,

Will Gibson

Will,

It was a pleasure meeting and chatting with you this weekend.  

I must say that I was totally surprised at the quality of B&W prints you are
getting from your 1800 using Epson's color inks.  I expected to see some
traces of color hues but saw none.  Also, the sharpness of your prints was
better than the color prints done on lightjets that others were showing.
Another interesting thing is that when prints are put behind glass,
metamerism is a non-issue unless you've got it real bad.  I encourage anyone
in the San Diego area to check out this exhibit.

While those of us in this group (including me) tend to spend a lot of time
talking about the C8x, 220, 2400, and occasionally the 1280, this exhibit
showed the 1800 at $300 less than the 2400 is definitely capable of
producing gallery quality carbon-based prints.  Of course, it helps when the
printer knows what he's doing!
 
Bob



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