On 6/6/2012 2:33 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
> ... It all depends on if the definition of "quality" is adjusted to give
> digital an edge... I always love the comment
> "I never got prints this good from my darkroom" are signs that the person
> saying that probably really wasn't all that
> good in the darkroom in the first place. We are constantly evolving, learning
> and improving as photographers and
> technicians. Who's to say that you wouldn't have improved just as much in the
> darkroom as you have in the lightroom?
> It's really fun when I go back and start applying what I've learned in the
> digital age to film. Especially in
> scanning. I'm a far better scanner today than I was 10 years ago. AG
Read Ctein today on TOP.
<http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2012/06/printing-for-ronny.html>
This is a guy who has made his living mostly as a nationally, if not
internationally, known master printer. He is still
making dye transfer prints - until the supplies he has horded run out. If you
look back, you will see other columns by
him about analog and digital prints.
With a huge, first rate darkroom and expert skills, I think he is better
equipped to comment on this subject than
anybody else you or I or Ed are likely to read or hear from.
His take is that carefully done digital with the right equipment, experience
and skills, is, while subtly different
from, at least as good as the wet analog printing done at the same level.
Today's column is about color, I don't recall his take on B&W, but it's
probably out there.
The point is, if you really like the process and or the results of what you do,
more power to you. There is no need to
make the other guy wrong or foolish.
I do BTW have a couple of Ctein prints, one dye transfer and one digital. The
subjects are so different, though, that
there are no points of comparison other than the superb quality of both. He may
even be as good as Bob. ;-)
Even Handed Moose
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