Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric Welch wrote: >=20 > At 08:18 AM 11/7/97 -0500, you wrote: >=20 > >ask.=A0 Anyone have experience=A0 doing B&W digitally?=A0 It really wo= uld be nice > >to have TCN400 developed by my local processor and then work on prints > >digitally. >=20 > You have $8,000 for a good dye sub printer? If not, go for the darkroom. > And as far as I am concerned, I can make more beautiful prints in a > darkroom than on Photoshop with such a dye sub printer. If I didn't nee= d to > work digitally for work, I wouldn't for black and white at all. Color i= s > another subject. Black and white just doesn't have the tonal modulation > that chemical prints give. Today's printing papers are sublime. Competi= tion > is good! would not the ideal be to do high res scans, manipulate in photoshop and then output to large format BW negative, then go into the darkroom and create magic. Donal Philby San Diego