Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 07:54 AM 11/8/97 -0800, you wrote: >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. I don't think so, since we're talking ideal. I'm of the belief that the digital process just can't match the chemical process yet, and because of the refined nature of the best black and white materials, it's going to be some time before that's going to change. I have yet to use a scanner (best $17,000) and output device (Kodak dye sub printer $8,000 or Tektronix Phaser at $16,000) to even come close to TMax 400 or 100 or Delta 100, Oriental Seagull VC fiber paper and a V35 enlarger. Maybe I'm just not working with big enough files. But I don't think any dye-sub printer or paper is good enough, yet. Color seems to be easier to do with high quality in Photoshop and dye sub than with Kodachrome and Ilfochrome. But when I've seen top quality Ilfochromes, (I'm not a color printer by any stretch of the imagination) I'd still have to give chemical processes the edge for absolute quality. ========== Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch One should never generalize.