Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/08/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Personally I've never made an RC print so I would not know anything about there relative value. The reason I've never used RC paper is I can't dry them down in a microwave. I'm not even sure if RC paper suffers from dry down. I was commenting on the price really, but, like they say you get what you pay for. You should come see my Focomats some day. At 05:58 PM 8/21/2009, you wrote: > > WOW, one could fill a gallery space quite reasonably at those RC > > prices especially at 20x24. > > > > > > At 02:51 PM 8/21/2009, you wrote: > >> Douglas Nygren wrote: > >> > >>> That said I confess I work both in the darkroom and with Photoshop. I > >>> love the control Photoshop provides. If I only had that in the > >>> darkroom. But I also love the look of silver prints. > >> > >> Here's one solution: > >> > >> http://www.digitalsilverimaging.com/ > > >Not to be too much of a pain but I'll take an inkjet print on rag paper 100 >times over an RC print of any surface. >I've made tens of thousands of RC prints. >Take them. >I'd rather they would go away. I wince every time I come upon one. >Don't know which is worse the "pearl" or the hyper gloss. >For my commercial work I raised my print prices in the late 90's and gave >all my clients of any kind except weddings fiber prints. Fixed twice. Not >always selenium. Depends on how much I liked them. And I printed them >myself. > >RC prints by the way mean nothing to a collector or a gallery or a museum. >They'd not touch them with a ten foot pole. >Yes color prints are in effect RC prints most of them but I'm talking about >black and white. > >Just because a print has silver in it does not mean we love it. > >I say spend a little more time in the darkroom and make a real silver print >that has some meaning and or value. RC prints are for contact sheets, proofs >and weddings. Shlock commercial work. >Pay to have one done? >Spend another couple of bucks and get fiber. >Will make a regular guy out of you. > > >Mark William Rabiner > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information