Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/01

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Subject: RE: [Leica] New Holy War--Film Scanners
From: "Austin Franklin" <darkroom@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 22:16:33 -0400

Hi Nelson,

You're welcome.  I use www.inkjetmall.com quadtone inks on an Epson 3000
with their driver.  I don't believe it's available from them any more
though, but is possibly available from www.bwguys.com.  If you have some
trouble finding it, let me know.  Inkjetmall is coming out with a new
"system" soon (so they say, and have been saying for a year now!) that might
be worth waiting for...

Regards,

Austin

> Hi Austin,
>
> Thank you for your reply.
>
> wow, that is amazing. Eversince I plunge into this hobby, I use mostly
> slides and color negative because of lack of good lab for b&w here in the
> Philippines.  Can you recommend a good setup for printing b&w?  Thanks.
>
> Nelson
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Austin Franklin" <darkroom@ix.netcom.com>
> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 12:25 AM
> Subject: RE: [Leica] New Holy War--Film Scanners
>
>
> > Hi Nelson,
> >
> > > I have no experience with film scanners what so ever.  I use film
> > > exclusively and have no experience in digital camera whatsoever.  What
> are
> > > the advantage of a scanner other than storing the images in your
> > > pc and for
> > > posting photos on the web?  can you use the digitize images
> for printing
> > > hard copy instead of the negative?  Thanks.
> >
> > No chemical darkroom for printing...  Exceptional control over
> tonality...
> > Just for starters.  IMO, film scanning gives you the best of both worlds
> > (digital vs film).
> >
> > Digital printing is sharper and has better tonality (at least
> for B&W, I'm
> > not really into color) if you use a quad-tone printing set-up.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Austin
> >
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