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Subject: [Leica] Anyone doing digital negative and hybrid printing?
From: benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney)
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 07:48:09 +0930
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I agree completely on the FB paper front.  I am a decent printer too,
but the need for the 'room sized accessory' (a darkroom) and my own
general lack of speed are irritating.

M

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com> 
wrote:
> I'm not sure if Salgado uses a lowly inkjet (even if it is an Epson 1000 or
> HP Z6100 etc.) or an imagesetter etc. Any case, here's what Dan wrote to 
> me,
> YMMV:
>
> ***
> And indeed, you can make an Ilford MG IV (or other fine silver paper)
> print from a digital negative and have no evidence that it's not from a
> camera-original neg. The quality is stunning. We've had master printers
> bring their final print along with the original neg. We scan the neg,
> spend maybe 20 minutes tweaking and retouching the scan, and then output
> the neg on an Epson 3800 (now a 3880) printer and then print it on
> Ilford paper. That final print is better than the master silver print
> the artist produced from the original negative.
>
> ***
>
> It really comes down to two things:
> - I really like the look of the FB prints. I know many are happy with 
> inkjet
> matt or gloss paper. I like them too, but just not as much as a FB print
>
> - it will take me a long time to master the darkroom advanced techniques...
> I can get an OK starting workprint but beyond that, it's just much easier
> for me to do using LR or Photoshop.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> This is how Salgado works now, but I've not had any firm information
>> on the way he writes his negs from the digital files. ?Maybe film
>> writers have improved, but I can't see why any manufacturer would be
>> putting any effort into them. ?The ones I tried 5-10 years ago were
>> terrible. ?I've experimented with contact printing inkjet negs and it
>> works, but it didn't work for enlarging when I tried it. ?I still
>> think that glossy FB silver paper is the nicest surface there is for a
>> photo to be in.
>>
>> Marty
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 5:59 AM, Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com>
>> wrote:
>> > I know about resources such as Dan Burkholder, Mark, Nelson,
>> > hybridphoto.cometc.
>> >
>> > However, just wondering if any LUGgers are into this process. I have all
>> the
>> > stuff set up, can't wait until it gets dark so my darkroom (garage) has
>> less
>> > light leak.
>> >
>> > --
>> > // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/>
>> > // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.wordpress.com>
>> > // photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com>
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>
> --
> // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/>
> // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.wordpress.com>
> // photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com>
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