Kathryn Garrison (Kathryn.Garrison@colorado.edu)
Wed, 14 Jul 1999 17:23:09 -0600
You should definitely read David Fokos's paper on the subject,
http://bostick-sullivan.com/Technical%20papers/Digital%20Info/Dave_Fokos/dav
etech.htm
I am only at the point where I've got the negative enlarged, but haven't
yet printed it. Actually I need to pick it up so I can't tell you what it
looks like yet either. So maybe someone else can comment??
snip
>I understand that digital negs print essentially only black and white,
>albeit in very small dots. Now, the processes I am interested in (pt/pd and
>chrysotypes)pay back my efforts and frustrations in exploring them by their
>long, smooth tonal scale. Can this be reproduced with digital negs? Or, is
>it not that the minute separation of tones get reduced to a finite number
>of them? What about splits/shades of brown?
>I would be very interesting to see what digital does to chrysotypes and
>their different colours.
>Just musing,
>Lukas
>
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