This is the web site of Pierre Chiha, my photo mentor
<http://www.pierre.com/> On the gallery page
<http://www.pierre.com/portfolio.html> you'll find a section labeled
musicians. <http://www.pierre.com/musicians.html> Within the musicians
section, the last 3 photos (the conductor and violinist) were shot on a
5D (as was nearly everything else) and exhibition quality prints
prepared by a guy in New York who specializes in B&W printing from
digital. I do not recall his name except that it's spelled "expensive".
There are probably some 15-20 prints in the series. IIRC they are about
24x30". The prints are exquisite. I cannot imagine that it would be
possible to make them look better. But, although Pierre does most of
his own printing on a couple of large Epsons he did not even attempt the
B&W with his equipment. I think if you could personally inspect these
prints you'd change your mind about what's possible to do with digital
B&W. But I certainly don't have the equipment or the skills to do that
type of work either digital or in the darkroom. I think his printers
have something like 8 shades of gray ink.
ps: My good friend Dr. Flash set up the lighting for the lead shot in
the musicians group which shows the Boston Classical Orchestra in
Faneuil Hall. He also set up the lights for about half of the other
shots on that page, mostly students. Dr. Flash also did the lighting on
lots of other shots throughout that site but did manage to slip in one
actual portrait shot of his own. See the young blond lass in row 5,
column 2 on the barmitzvah page <http://www.pierre.com/barmitzvah.html>
The shot above may also be his. He's a shutter dragging kind of guy. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
Ken Norton wrote:
>
> I maintain that a well-processed and printed Ilford PanF negative on a fiber
> silver-gelatin paper will easily surpass anything remotely possible with
> digital. Digital is getting much much better, but this final frontier
> hasn't been crossed yet.
>
> AG
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