John, you're correct in your doubts. The digital darkroom really is not a
mass market activity, altho' most folks will be satisfied with the mediocre
results they get because one-hour labs have delivered mediocre conventional
processing/printing for years.
Getting true photo quality scans and prints requires careful calibration of
the scanner, monitor and printer. And as a monitor ages recalibration must
be done. To do all this properly, a fairly expensive calibration device
must be used. Lacking such a device I calibrated my system by eyeball - I'd
estimate it took two or three months of trial and error to get it right,
especially the printer output.
OTOH, the learning curve is no worse than with the wet darkroom and being
able to display one's images so easily to so many people is very gratifying.
So gratifying, in fact, the trick becomes knowing when to say 'nuff. ;)
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Lex Jenkins
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"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he
will sit in a boat and drink beer all day."
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 09:18:00 +0000
From: "John O'Regan" <john.oregan@xxxxxxxxxx>
...I've scanned one or two prints into my PC and printed them but I have
been very disappointed with the results. There seems to be some
cross-calibration required between scanner/screen/printer...Is this really
a mass market activity?
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