Traditional B&W pics as Digital Prints

[West_ray]

Have anyone of your digitally print your scanned negative b&w pics before? I know that the effect would not be as great as on traditional papers, but would like to know how far can it be accepted from a traditional printers point of views.

note: digitally print from labs, as what ppl would print with their digital prints.

 

[kex]

different pp different standards...

But digital B&W is also very nice,darkroom prints are just different.

 

[canturn]

Have anyone of your digitally print your scanned negative b&w pics before? I know that the effect would not be as great as on traditional papers, but would like to know how far can it be accepted from a traditional printers point of views.

note: digitally print from labs, as what ppl would print with their digital prints.

I do that all the time for people who want the b&w feel but don't have enough budget to pay for darkroom printing.

Just like CD audio, there's ADD (record in analog, edit and master in digital). I don't just do a straight print digitally from the neg most of the time coz I would do a bit of dodging and burning to even out the tonality first and sometimes perspective correction (instead of tilting my base board in the darkroom and stopping down to print at least f16)

 

[ellery]

Depends on too many things. But to get identical prints from wet dark room to digital (at lab) prints is not possible - the 2 processes are different and the inherient differences add up. You could get passable prints - if you are prepared to accept color casts if you are not then happy searching for a lab that can balance down the colors.