Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Doug, I would agree with what you say, until I went digital I printed Cibachrome (Ilfochrome) in my darkroom, good prints took a great deal of time - and money. Getting a good print from a digital file is a fair bit quicker and the incremental cost is less. OTOH it takes over half an hour to scan each 6x7 transparency on my film scanner with scratch removal working. That is very limiting for a busy amateur. Frank On 12 Jan, 2006, at 15:04, dnygr wrote: > Mention was made of how long it takes to scan negatives. > > That is in keeping with my belief that excellent prints take time > to make. > > If you want to do a good job in the darkroom or in photoshop you > need to take your time, you need to have good taste and you need to > do what you are doing. > > Digital is nice insofar that once you have manipulated the image > the way you want it, you can save your work and recreate it with > little effort (the printers do make some demands). > > But excellent prints just don't happen. You have to make them just > as you have to make a good photo in the wet darkroom. Quality is > not the product of luck, and quality takes time. > > I got into printing my own photos because I found so many labs > rushed things out. It's easy to print a lot of medicore photos, but > who needs them. > > Doug Nygren > > > ________________________________________________________________ > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information