Digital BW, The Print

John,
Thanks for the detailed report.  The reason I was interested in 35mm, is
because the obvious film grain would be part of the “creative” work, that
some say only looks “right” in a darkroom print.  With the smoothness of K6,
it might get closer to that look?

Best regards,
John Moody

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Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Scanning 35mm vs digital camera (off topic)


Yes John,I have. I am printing a limited edition portfolio from Howtek
drum scans of 35mm Leica tri x negatives, 16x20 on Hahnemuhle Museum
Etching right now. After this one is finished my client wants another
different portfolio of 20 editons also. I have previously output
these files with a 9600 with QTR and Ultrachome. The K6 are to my
client and me much nicer in everyway, color tone , black density, and
especially smoothness of midtone and highlight values. I have liked a
lot of inkjet monochrome work that I've done in the past but this is
the first combination that I can say I really love. I believe there
are about 4 or 5 really good ways to do mono inkjet these days but
this is the best one I have worked with. I certainly hope it is
economicly successful because I'm already totally dependent on it.
However, drums scans of 4x5 blow away the 35mm in smoothnesss and
range which is not surprising, and this is what I am starting to do
with my own work.

I've also done several drum scans of Scala 35mm transparency film on
K6. Now that Scala stuff has really limited shadow info on the film
but they were well exposed and they are good too. I will  say  on
record that after trying about 5 or 6 other inksets over the years I'm
totally sold on K6 or K7. To me its perfect, if you want neutral. I
believe Jon is working on a glossy compatable version. Now if that is
successful, with the better fiber gloss papers out there, I will
surely seriously  begin working with that combination as well and we
would see a whole new resurgence in black and white photography. And
of course Epson K3 for that is pretty amazing too for the glossy end
of things.

John





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