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Old April 21st 17, 11:21 PM posted to rec.photo.digital
Ken Hart[_4_]
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Default Film scanners?

On 04/20/2017 07:03 PM, Bill W wrote:
On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 18:38:59 -0400, Ken Hart
wrote:

I have to disagree with Mr Bill W's first paragraph. When developing the
film, artistry and trial & error should usually be somewhere down the
hall! The goal is to be able to get predictable results on the film.

That said, there may be times when you have to break the rules in film
developing to get any results at all: most typically push or pull
processing.

Once you have the best possible negative in your enlarger, then the
artistry starts: burning in or dodging, color balance, contrast, etc.

Thank you for your respect of the craft. But I don't find it hard (maybe
because I don't use a "bathroom darkroom"!), and a well printed, mounted
and framed enlargement gives me a sense of achievement.


Fair enough, but it's not the process I disagree with, it's the
claimed output quality of the process.


I have prints (typically 20"x24") hanging that I've shoot on either
35mm, 6x6, or 645 and optically printed that I will stack up against an
equivalent digital print- not a screen image, but an actual
print-on-paper, framed and hanging on the wall.

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Ken Hart