Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My mistake, Rolf...There is a Durst equivalent of the Lightjet, the name of which I can't recall, which I had used to turn out apx 24 x 28 black and white prints from tri-x negs shot at 800 and scanned....with really astounding results.... - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Rolfe Tessem Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 2:44 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] What Would Ansel Do? On Dec 13, 2003, at 11:05 AM, B.D. Colen wrote: > > Ansel would by now have a deal with one of the medium format digital > back manufacturers who would be producing an Ansel Adams Signature > Model...And it would go on the Hasselblad with the zone system > metering he is supposed to have designed. > > The one thing I would be willing to be money on, were there any way to > settle the bet, is that Ansel would long ago have begun scanning, > doing > all his pre-developing tray work in Photoshop, and then would probably > have had the final prints produced with something like a Fuji Lightjet > - > although he might well have gotten involved in quadtone inkjet > printing. > But either way, I can't imagine that someone who so relied on darkroom > manipulation for his final results would not have become as much a > master of Photoshop has he was of darkroom work. > > B. D. The Lightjet isn't made by Fuji, but rather by Oce Display Graphics Systems. http://www.oce.com/en/Products/Printers-copiers-plotters/Colour/ GraphArtsIndoor/Lightjet430/default.htm The previous version was the Lightjet 5000, which was made by Cymbolic Sciences. > > http://www.cymbolic.com/products/lightjet5000.html You're probably thinking of the Fuji Frontier, widely used at everything from drugstores to pro labs, but not in the Lightjet's class. I don't think there is a better technology for color prints, but I've never known anyone to use it for the B&W output that was Ansel's stock in trade the last time I looked. > - -- Rolfe Tessem | Lucky Duck Productions, Inc. rolfe@ldp.com | 96 Morton Street (212) 463-0029 | New York, NY 10014 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html