Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/14

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Subject: Re: [Leica] enlarger or scanner?
From: Tina Manley <images@InfoAve.Net>
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 21:45:56 -0400

At 08:27 PM 4/14/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Am I crazy? Is this really a serious discussion? Have you people ever looked
>at a truly fine print? Is there even a serious issue here? Silver paper is
>dead and digital is the answer? Not yet in my estimate! Or maybe it's a joke
>and I missed something?
>If not, buy a P&S pixel camera. plug it into your computer and printer or
>scan your images and have a good time. But do not think that your scanned
>images can match a well-done print. (I am being had, right?)
>Bob Figlio

Bob -

And I will ask you the same.  Have you ever seen a truly fine digital 
print?  Not from a digital camera but from film, scanned at the proper 
resolution and printed with a printer and inks capable of reproducing a 
complete gray scale?  If you haven't, you don't know what you're missing.

 From an Old Zonie

Tina

Tina Manley, ASMP
http://www.tinamanley.com