From: Nick Makris (nick@mcn.org)
Date: 06/11/00-12:55:14 PM Z
Jeffrey Wrote:
> What you call flat is what your eye sees, which is not what the print
coating sees.
>
> The basic philosophy should be to understand thoroughly the materials
> and processes used independent of whether the negative is digital or
> analog.
>
Jeffrey,
What I am hearing you say is that the PT/PD chemistry responds differently
to a digital negative than to an analog neg - perhaps not exactly, but that
is my inference. Put another way, a digital neg that looks flat will
produce the same results as an analog neg that looks contrasty - I have
trouble with that.
We all know what a well constructed negative looks like (more or less) and
that the
naked eye has the ability to readily discern the difference between a flat
neg and a contrasty neg. A given emulsion can only produce a good print
from a neg with optimum contrast for the particular process, which is
somewhere
in between the two. We're talking at a very base level here.
Given all that, the nagging question remains; "why do we produce a digital
negative flat and an analog neg with contrast"???
And Jeffrey, I would very much like to see the curve you have eluded to for
your HP inkjet.
Nick
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