At 09:45 AM 3/1/2003 -0600, Joel Wilcox wrote:
John,
The primary disadvantage is the time it takes and the inconvenience of
developing film and scanning it as compared to an unmediated digital
source. That said, I've been doing what you describe for about 6 years
now. I like the idea that I can either scan or wet print my winners. I
really like film. When people tell me they are surprised I don't have a
digital camera, I don't disparage digital cameras, I just tell them I
really like film. It's much easier for me to say nice things about films
than think of reasons against digital (especially as I really have nothing
against digital in principle).
BTW I am very happy printing BW with color inks. I print a lot more color
than BW, so I would probably settle for some compromises anyway, but
honestly I don't feel compromised in any way. One thing that I know that
helps is Colorvision's profiling software. When I build a profile, one
of my tests as to whether I've gotten the profile right is the ability to
print a neutral grayscale image in RGB mode.
Joel, can you tell me more? I am just starting to play around with B&W
conversion. How do you print B&W? What kind of neutral gray image do you
use? What printer? etc.
// richard <http://www.imagecraft.com>
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