Re: curves and gum and Christopher James book

[Judy Seigel <jseigel@panix.com>]

On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Kees Brandenburg wrote:

> > The only thing we want with printed negatives is to make them 'behave' in 
> such a way that the image tones in the final print are exactly as the image 
> tones onscreen.
I'm trying to follow this discussion (no quizzes please), but at this 
point MUST point out that we gum printers don't particularly concern 
ourselves with "onscreen image."  I myself (and others I know) tend to 
*find* the image in the printing, that is with the variables of 
sensitizer, development, number of coats, etc. as... variables.

I still hope/intend/seriously desire to master (mistress?) diginegs -- but 
you make it sound like Zone System (or Ansel Adams) without Roman 
Numerals... Is that everything "alt" is about?

(So call me names -- sorry about that !)

Judy