Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Albert Wang <leica_phile@hotmail.com> wrote: > > I called up a few professional labs in the Philadelphia area to check out > their options on color printing and found out there was no one who does > either Pigment Dye Transfer or Cibachrome processing anymore. My question > is why are these standard color processing technique dying out all over? > Why has digital methods taken over? Can a digitally colored print > approximate the quality of the pigment dye transfer or Cibachrome prints? > Personally my gut feelings is that they are not. Alfie, my experience is that a good digitally-processed print on Fuji Crystal Archive paper runs circles around a good Cibachrome. The degree of control possible with the digital process is several orders of magnitude greater than with an analog process... and, once you've got a good print, you SAVE THE FILE: reprints are a breeze. Crystal Archive prints are now considered more stable than Cibachrome. Rather than trusting your gut feelings, why not try a digital print and see for yourself? Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com - -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html