Digital BW, The Print

I'm glad you raised this.  I find myself often furstrated and confused by the 
tech-dominated nature of most discussions about digital imaging and printing.  
Not that there's anything wrong with a tech approach: I'm sure it's valuable for 
many people and I'm not intending to slam anyone here.  But I totally zone out 
(no pun intended) when I read a discussion of printing techniques that 
involves "You just need a photo-spectro-densito-device-thingy to linearize the 
output so that a printed step wedge reflects values of 1.44 to 2.67...."    As I 
said, I'm sure that's useful to many people, but not to me, so I'd also be 
interested in hearing about more visually-oriented resources.


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Djon" <
westsidemaurice@y...> wrote:
> Zone System diverged into intuitive/visual and quantitative/geek back in
> the day...some people were techie, others more visual...different strokes.
> 
> Obviously the same divide occurs with inkjet printing (and scanning
> and post processing)...they can be done very well technically by using
> one's eyes or by using measurements. I know this is controversial: the
> techie side generally dominates discussions, just as there are more
> engineers in this world than there are poets (and we do need both).
> 
> Are there visually-oriented (not quantitatively oriented) sites,
> books, gurus, Forums that occupy themselves with the combination of
> FILM, scanning, and inkjet printing?  
> 
> I'm stressing *FILM* because so many of us know it intimately, are
> well equipped for it, and aren't yet seeing consistently comparable
> results from the best digital photographers. 
> 
> I'm NOT looking for basic Zone System...not White/Adams/Picker et al:
> their concepts do relate but don't apply as intuitively and simply to
> Vuescan, Silverfast, Epson or Nikon or Minolta scanner apps.
> 
> Links? Books? People? Ideas?
> 
> Djon