Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/08/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well, in fact, this is why I am thinking about doing contact print - I can make whatever preparation I need via Photoshop on the scanned images (or heck, digital images) and then make digital negative. Then I can contact print on fiber paper and get the luminosity or whatever heck wet prints have and have the best of both worlds.... Or may be the worst of both worlds, wouldn't know until I try :-) At 01:33 PM 8/11/2005, you wrote: >Here we are once again discussing to very different things - working with an >image in a wet lab, and working with an image in a digilab. And here I come >down with both feet on the side of digi. PhotoShop gives far more control, >and far easier control, over image manipulation than any wet darkroom. I'd >argue that if money is no object, the way to go today is to send scanned neg >files - prepared in PhotoShop - or original digital files to a wet lab with >a Fuji Lightjet or similar system where the digital image drives controls >the exposure of silver paper. > >B. D. // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please use richard at imagecraft.com)