Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/01/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Slobodan, Saw my first ink jet print in a gallery in Carmel, CA over a decade ago. Unique, according to tag, and expensive. Nearby silver prints from Weston and Adams were way more impressive....and were priced for less. Things are now reversed. Baryta sounds more impressive than fiber. Like Giclee vs inkjet. Interesting that inkjet papers cost more per square inch than the best fiber/baryta papers. Am I alone in thinking that a fiber print will always have more inherent value than and inkjet? Doesn't matter that both look good, and will last. It's a level of effort thing. I guess I've spent too much time with two bath fixing and waiting for the archival washing to finish. No suprise why silver prints are rare and getting more rare. They should also cost more. That's a hard sell, though. Try asking the bride, "Do you want, prints made from carbon like that candle wick over there?....Or dyes like that tie dye shirt obnoxious kid brother is wearing?.... or do you want prints formed from precious metals?" Hopefully she doesn't remember that the diamond in her engagement ring is carbon. I like darkroom printing and fondly remember the occasional LUG threads pitting the fiber crowd against the RC generation. "Taste Great!" "Less Filling!" "Fiber is archival" "RC is EZ" Who can forget the "Somebody has changed my favorite paperl" threads that populated the LUG as often as "Kodak changed Tri-X". The only change Kodak made to Tri-X is the last 20 years is the time of day they make it. Yesterday the degree of change that had everyone up in arms isn't even comparable to the product changes we face monthly in the digital world. DaveR www.lightcurves.com >From: "Slobodan Dimitrov" <s.dimitrov@charter.net> >Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >Subject: Re: [Leica] Baryta prints >Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 14:22:36 -0800 > >The fine art fiber based print is indeed becoming a rarity. It's more often >seen as a vintage print and not as contemporary work these days. >I just printed a wedding folio on Ilford's warmtone semi-matte this >weekend. >I think the next time I do another one like it I'll charge appropriately. >S. Dimitrov > _________________________________________________________________ Check out the new MSN 9 Dial-up — fast & reliable Internet access with prime features! http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-us&page=dialup/home&ST=1 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html