Yah, well, I know a of couple of fine art photographers who do digital prints. Why? Because it is cheaper. One of them still does his own Ilfordchromes he gets a premium for them. The other never did his own printing. As I said there are economic reasons to use digital commercially. YMV. And since you took part of my post out of context, folks reading this should look at the subject line above.
I will, however, restate. I downloaded a couple of the dcs-14n tiff files from the Kodak site. Printed them and compared the prints to D&P prints from 6x7s I had. The digital prints didn't make it in comparison. And as I said, I am tired of this argument. I have consistently tried to point out both sides of this issue. Being in the middle just gets me snarled at by both sides. The hell with it. Ciao, Graywolf http://pages.prodigy.net/graywolfphoto ----- Original Message ----- From: "Herb Chong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 11:02 PM Subject: Re: What is better? Digital Full Frame against 67 > Message text written by INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >If you compare a high quality photographic print from film to a > digital print from a digital image the photographic print is still better. > And if you compare a large format photographic print to a digital print it > is quite a lot better.< > > a couple of people i know who shoot 4x5 and make large exhibition prints > would disagree with you. the digital print from a scan of the 4x5 is almost > invariably better, in their opinion. the most recent example i have met is > a professional fine art landscape photographer who makes most of his money > from print sales. he's the guy i took the workshop from recently. have you > had an exhibition print professionally made from a 4x5 via traditional > enlarger and then by scanning recently? > > everyone of the people i have talked to didn't switch to scans and digital > prints because of control, although they like that aspect of it. they did > it because of quality and durability. i see what the professionals around > me who have "made it" (they derive all their income from their photography) > in the fine art landscape photography business are doing and no matter what > film they shoot, they do digital prints. > > Herb.... >
