Most of what I shoot is film, Chris, film which I scan and print digitally.
Prior to getting a scanner I had everything commercially printed - and I am far
happier, getting far better results, now. And, btw, most of my work is black
and white, and I can get far better results using Photoshop and the quad-tone
inkjet process than I was ever able to get in a wet darkroom.
But like everything else, it's all a matter of what works for you.
Best
B. D.
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bd
I am not sure that you have priced the paper and ink correctly, but
even if you have there is the huge convenience of sending the film off
and receiving back the prints. I barely have the time to scan and
catalogue my slides, so there is no time to put out the number of
prints that I would want.
A colleague at work asked my opinion about digital last Christmas. I
advised against it for the reasons I have already listed, but he went
ahead anyway - he's probably more of a gadget man than even I am. I
asked him a couple of months later how he was printing them, and the
answer was "i'm not" ... a further 2 months later and he is happy with
the printer he eventually did buy, but he has not worked out the cost.
Your point about high quality inkjet prints for mono is quite right.
My original point was that I enjoy the mono experience in the
darkroom... and that applies across the spectrum of film versus
digital. I will stick with film for quite a while yet.
Chris
On Thursday, Aug 14, 2003, at 20:22 Europe/London, bdcolen wrote:
> Good Lord! Get a digital printer - for less than $250 U.S. - and you
> can
> crank out 4x6s till the proverbial cows come home.
>
> Further, what you're saying about inkjet printing can be applied,
> 1000-fold, to doing one's own darkroom work. But when you print your
> own work in the darkroom, you have to repeat the entire process again
> every time you want another print - once you've done the digital work,
> all you
> have to do is call up the image and press Print. There is no way I
> could
> afford to have high-quality custom silver prints made on a regular
> basis
> - and I can afford to produce equally high quality inkjet prints.
>
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