Re: Desktop Negs with Epson 1270 printer

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From: Gerard NIEMETZKY (gerard@atxstudio.com)
Date: 05/25/00-07:02:46 AM Z

Jeffrey,

You should ask John Rudiak about the "digital" negatives we produce and the
not at all "digital" look he gets on his prints.

Regards 

-- 
Gerard Niemetzky

More information about enlarged negatives at:

http://www.atxstudio.com/seps.htm

From: "Jeffrey D. Mathias" <jeffrey.d.mathias@worldnet.att.net>
Reply-To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 23:45:25 -0400
To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Subject: Re: Desktop Negs with Epson 1270 printer

Dan,

I am wondering if you have given any thought to my dilemma of getting
enough number of tones in various parts of the image.  Digital 8-bit
only provides 255 (RGB values of 0 not used) and some extra (about 45)
may be obtained by offsetting the ranges of inks (black and yellow).
However there remains a critical shortage of tones especially at the
highlight end.  This is much more important in a Pt/Pd print which
discriminates subtle values.

This issue of the number of tones seems far more important to the look
of the photograph than resolution (ppi, lpi).  I also believe that the
restriction of tones may be responsible for making a print from a
digital negative look "digital" as compared to a print from an analog
negative.  This "look" is something I have heard some master
photographers comment on as a certain lack of "photographic look or
quality" in what appears to otherwise be a fine print.

-- 
Jeffrey D. Mathias
http://home.att.net/~jeffrey.d.mathias/

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