No. Not a projector. Just an ordinary Noritsu or other brand chemical
printer. The same that's used to create our color digital prints... but
not an ink jet printer. I don't know how they light the paper. I've
heard lasers and I've also heard flat screen CRTs. Maybe its either one.
Chuck Norcutt
On 10/20/2010 8:05 PM, Daniel Sepke wrote:
> I think that what Chuck might be suggesting perhaps is that you could take a
> digital projector and project the negative image directly onto the paper.
> One problem to that scenario of course is the resolution of common
> projectors is somewhat lower than your contact print might be. Then of
> course you have the lack of exposure controls and light spill. It does make
> me wonder if it would possible to take the imager and its control hardware
> out of an old LCD projector and mount them in a standard enlarger... Maybe
> someone must have tried this already.
>
> Dan S
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Norton [mailto:ken@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Subject: Re: [OM] Finally, some darkroom time (couple of OM B&W prints)
>
>> I'm afraid I just don't get this "digital contact negative" thing. Why
>> isn't a B&W digital image projected by light onto conventional B&W paper
>> just as good... nay, better because there's no intervening process to
>> muddy the translation?
>
>
> For those not following what a "digital contact negative" is, let me
> explain.
>
> <snip>
>
> The end result is a print that has all the lovely characteristics of
> an analog print (the image sits in the paper, tooth, reflectance,
> texture)... Of course, if you know what you are doing and follow
> procedures correctly, the archival properties are exceptional.
>
> AG
>
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