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Subject: [Leica] Re: [OT] Color darkroom worth it?
From: Jim Brick <jim@brick.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 22:12:35 -0700

At 07:26 PM 4/16/2002 -0500, Matthew Powell wrote:
>I'm slowly looking into putting together my own darkroom so I don't have to
>stick to the university's schedule, but I'm wondering if it's worth the
>extra expense to also prepare for color work in the digital age. I've got an
>Epson 1280 and a refurbished Canon film scanner (2710), which may get
>upgraded at some point in the next year or so.
>
>Do the processes for creating prints from slides (Cibachrome?) present any
>significant advance in quality over a good 1280 print?



I print Ciba's weekly, if not daily. I have never seen an inkjet print that 
can even approach the rich color saturation of a good Ciba print. I'll talk 
to you more later. Gotta go right now...

Jim

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