Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]What I've seen with chemical v. digital darkroom comes down to the following: digital offers vast correction, modification and exact duplication with an unlimited medium display. chemical offers vast correction, modification and duplication with a limited medium display. Skill sets are vastly different; however, skilled persons can acheive outstanding results from either digital or chemical. I do not have space for a chemical darkroom and am therefore developing digital skill sets and am seeing prints that now approach what 30 years of chemical skills had been able to create. Most interesting is that I never did color printing and now I am doing a few older pictures. Good, not excellent, digital color is as good as outstanding chemical color printing. I see only differences in B&W due to limited tonal scale of digital medium. Also I find the black smudges on my hands as annoying as the brown finger nails. All my Leica images look better printed and displayed than hidding in the negative storage boxes. Happy snaps, Steven Alexander