On Tuesday, November 20, 2001, at 12:27 PM, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > I suppose a lot depends on how your system is calibrated, just like how > your darkroom is calibrated. However, it took me less time in the > darkroom to print that particular picture than it did to print it > digitally, and the quality was superior. Perhaps on the next print the > differences in quality and the time involved won't be so great.
How long have you been printing digitally? How long have you been printing conventionally? This month is the first birthday of our Epson 7500, and I would estimate that I now take less than half the time that I did to make a print when we first got it. I'm also working with it five or six days a week for several hours a day. Calibration is a very big part of digital printing, just as it is for film processing, or particularly for conventional colour printing. But also, experience is important. The first time you were in the black & white darkroom, how long did it take you to make a print? Plus, did you have any schooling in conventional printing? Or in digital? Digital, for all it's instant-gratification appearance, has its own learning curve and its own pitfalls. I've found that it is very similar to the conventional darkroom in one very important way: you get better with practice. -Aaron - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
