Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/05/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]About repeatability - Sure you may have to fiddle just a bit - but it's USUALLY - (USUALLY, Austin ;-) ) - a very quick, minor fiddle. But as Don points out, try to reproduce a wet print that required major work to begin with. My daughter, who is a "master" b&w printer with a high-end lab doing b&w book, exhibition, and limited edition portfolio work for the likes of Gordon Parks, the NYTimes, etc. etc. - had to struggle for a week to get a single image to 'match' the only thing the photographer's agent could give her to match it to - a print in a book. Of course, the assignment was virtually impossible, as you can't 'match' silver to ink ;-), but imagine if that neg had been scanned and Photoshoped for repro in the book - Slam! Bam! Thank you - Sir! Next image please! :-) - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Don Dory Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 10:51 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] Darkroom now digital pluses Austin, I think you missed my point. No where did I mention digital capture. All of my rant was after the film was scanned. As to repeatability of prints, it is a definition of standards. My experience so far has been that in the Epson world, prints made several years later match prints stored in the dark. Actually, so far, they match prints on display. Have I put a densitometer on them? No, so your point can be argued on the technical merits. However, the practical comparison would be an analog print made several years later in different chemistry, with a lamp that is at a different point in its life cycle, with a different batch of paper, and a printer trying to make heads or tails of the dodge/burn notes on the back of the master print. Never mind if there was any localized bleaching, split developers, split filtration, ad nauseum. In the inkjet world, pull out the CD, open PS, open the file, confirm size, optimize the printer to the media being printed on an out comes an extremely similar print. Spotting, I use a scanner with no dust/scratch reduction ability which wouldn't help anyway as 80% of what I scan is regular old B/W negatives and there is always some dust at 200%. Really, I am one of those people who enjoy the best of both worlds, film, and digital. Don dorysrus@mindspring.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html