Re: Wet vs. Dry

In my opinion (for what it's worth), this is a
non-issue. What matters is what you create, not how
you create it. If your creation is what you want it to
be on digital media, then you can do no better than
that. (Viewers, too, will decide whether your creation
is interesting or not, of course—and they may not
agree with you.) Four years ago I went to one of the
best West Coast digital output companies and had some
negatives scanned on state-of-the-art drum scanners
and had them printed on a top-quality printer on rag
paper using pigment-based inks as a test. After seeing
the output, I decided to build a wet darkroom in my
house; digital does not match wet printing for the
work I do. I wish it did. It would be a hell of a lot
easier. Ultimately, you simply have to decide whether
digital prints allow you to create what you want to
create. If the answer is "yes," go digital. If it is
"no," then don't. I suspect digital will be good
enough in a few more years, but I expect to keep
printing in the darkroom too.

Colin
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Received on Tue Nov 29 10:49:13 2005