Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]There is a little magazine called LENSWORK. There are great photos that are inkjet prints. I visited a lab that specializes in inkjets or glycee, something like that. I was really impressed by the prints. But I have also seen prints by Tillman Crane in the flesh and those inkjets never compared with them. On the latest issue there is a great essay "Trolling for Fools" by Brooke Jensen. It has to do with the photo market and pricing http://www.lenswork.com/ peace David On Jan 15, 2006, at 5:44 PM, GREG LORENZO wrote: > feli writes in part: > >> >> On Jan 15, 2006, at 11:44 AM, Ted Grant wrote: >> >>> We still have people making negative comments about inkjet prints >>> when they do not have the skills they've learned in the darkroom of >>> many years. If I had 50 years doing PS as I have in a darkroom I >>> imagine my B&W prints using the "tools" of PS, I suppose I could >>> produce inkjet prints that would leave people sucking air in >>> amazement, equal to when they look at my regular darkroom prints. ;-) >> >> It's not just a matter of skill, but also a matter of technical >> limitations. With the exception of perhaps the Epson K3 inks, there >> simply isn't a inkjet process out there (yet) that can produce images >> with the same range as a wet, glossy fiber print. But we are getting >> there. I'm guessing we will reach that point in the next 5 years. >> > > I don't know when to expect inkjet output to equal the quality of a > properly > printed silver wet print timewise, but I agree with you completely > that the current technical quality is *NOT* there Yet. A 'negative' > comment but true none the less. > > A lesser quality b&w print with unproven life expectency is not a > print I would purchase when I have the option to acquire a print from > the same image in traditional silver (assumes the original source is a > b&w neg. of course). I would also be prepared to pay a premium for the > latter. > > Regards, > > Greg > > Regards, > > Greg > of > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information