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Subject: [Leica] Two B&W with film
From: lluisripollphotography at gmail.com (Lluis Ripoll)
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2017 02:10:56 +0100
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Thanks to all for your comments!

I have also a good printer, Epson SC-P600, but for my negatives I consider 
ewet prints are better, I did a great use of my printer doing the Digital 
Negatives and I?ll still continue using it for this purpose.

Cheers
Lluis


> El 14 des 2017, a les 5:22, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> va 
> escriure:
> 
> After my first maybe only lull in printing for many a decade I finally got 
> an Epson P800 last week (a 17 inch pigment printer)  and am ready to get 
> going on my first new portfolio in a decade and a new show or two. f 17x22 
> ? and be there!
> I have no nostalgic memories of my darkroom life and output and am finding 
> no reasons to go back to doing that.
> My inkjet prints are in all ways superior than my darkroom output. A 
> result which is not a minority opinion.
> Photographers who were five or ten years ago offering their images in both 
> inkjet and darkroom are not doing the darkroom option any more.
> Inkjet prints look like a cross between a platinum print and a silver 
> gelatin darkroom.
> They look better not worse than any process black and white or color 
> darkroom print.
> I use Hahnem?hle Photo Rag? 308gsm 100% Cotton white paper.
> 
> There was no 100% rag cotton paper ever made for darkroom work that I know 
> of.
> Your matt board for sure was 100% rag cotton. Your prints had plenty of 
> wood pulp in it.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Mark William Rabiner
> 
> 
> 
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