Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/12

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Subject: Re: Long Way Around Dept.
From: Paul Schliesser <paulsc@eos.net>
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 97 18:51:01 -0400

>> would not the ideal be to do high res scans, manipulate in photoshop and
>> then output to large format BW negative, then go into the darkroom and
>> create magic. --Donal Philby
>> ---------------------------------------------------------
>> That's like flying to NYC from LA by way of Bombay.

Bob,

The alternative (and tradtional method) is to make a large print, 
airbrush on it, then rephotograph to get it back on film, to do the same 
thing. It's much more reasonable to do this digitially and output to a 
film recorder, and the quality will be much higher.

- - Paul