----- Original Message ----- From: "Shel Belinkoff"
Subject: Re: Decisions...Decisions...
So, when someone tells me that they are doing GREAT B&W work with a digital workflow, I want to see it, and put it next to a print of a known quality. I just have not seen the depth of tone, the deepest blacks, the most subtle gradations, the finest of detail, in digi prints. Are such prints out there? maybe. But I've not seen 'em. Show me an Adams quality print, or a WES quality print, done digitally, and I'll shut up, eat my words, sell my film gear, and buy a new Hasselblad medium format digital camera.
That day may come, I expect it will come.
At the moment, too many megapixels, and too much bit depth is required for the technology to deliver.
My benchmark at the moment is a print I made myself from a 4x5 FP-4 negative onto Zone VI Brilliant.
William Robb
