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Each has however survived and flourished.
I have been a Commercial Photographer for close to 40 years with a colour print
darkroom where i produce quantity prints as well as enlargements p to 24" wide. I
have been dabbling in digital photography for 2 or 3 years, but have recently
become serious about it. I am using a PC with Photoshop 4.0, an Agfa Arcus II
scanner, and an Epson 600 printer.
My conclusions are that given an original photograph with some imperfections in it
(that could not be corrected at the shooting stage)I would rather correct those
imperfections digitally and accept the resulting print from the printer. With a little
practice and some imagination the resulting print may not look precisely like the
original photograph, but will be very accepatble in it it's own right. With all the
filters, effects and enhancements available the picture can be far more attractive
overall than the unmanipulated version.
Yes, if you look closely you can see tiny dots, though mostly just in the light areas
but then so you can in any glossy magazine photo printed with a 150 line screen.
I have actually reproduced a final image from a fax that I enhanced and printed.
Without any knowledge of its origins it was thought to be very Creative, because it
was judged only on its own merit.
The technology is in its infancy. Let us accept it as a new medium. The weak areas,
such as lack of stability will be overcome. In the mid '40s 35mm. film was
traditionally only 12 or 25 ASA, or it would be too grainy for anything larger than
2"x3" prints. We've come a long way since then.
-- Joseph Levy, June 12, 1997
Concerning the photo quality printer I use an Epson Stylus Photo and I am very
pleased with it. It prints not only photos but also, by the way, standard B/W
documents. It takes time to understand "how it works" in order to define the better
result in term of "output colour accurancy", later on is faster than printing colour
print in your dark room , with or without Cibachrome, don't to mention photo labs .
Obviously PhotoShop, a film scanner and an Apple Power Macintosh are a must !
Using the "Digital Dark Room" it is now easy and funny to have standard print to
use as personal post-card or souvenir or , some time, as "poster" in A4 format.
Recommended !
-- Antonio Petrone, August 20, 1997
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