> Let's say you shoot 6+Mp digital. > It's convenient and provides fast results. > But -- you still want negs for darkroom work, > whether 35mm or medium format. > Would you be willing pay for the optional extra service > of getting a set of negs back from the lab along with > your prints? > > Collin
You also would add the problem of adding generations. One of digital's strengths is that you are using a first generation image. You would have to make a negative from the file on a film recorder (1 gen), then make a print from that neg (2 gen) and you would be adding optical paths in both the film recorder and printer. My guess is that the decreased image quality coupled with the cost would make this a loosing proposition. There is a trick if you want to contact print b&w of printing a negative image in Photoshop onto clear transparency film (Pictorico works best) then using that to contact print onto conventional b&w paper. I believe Shutterbug a few years ago ran a how to article on that. Butch Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself. Hermann Hesse (Demian)
