I have seen the sight of painters selling the original of their work for
$$$$$ and "gicle" prints for $$ at even the most humble art fair. I have a
friend that owns a lab that has done a good business in making copies of
art, paintings watercolors, etc, that can then be used (preferably by him)
to make prints on canvas. I'm not buying them but some do!
From: Piers Hemy [mailto:piers@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 6:50 AM
To: 'Olympus Camera Discussion'
Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: 280 megapixels
I was talking at the weekend with a photographer who has a different "take"
on the dilemma. He makes the image on LF film, develops and prints his
"masterpieces", and then uses the silver halide print as the model to
produce an inkjet version. The one-off silver halide original is then for
sale at $$$, while the inkjet prints form the limited-edition print run for
sale at $$.
But space limitations have forced him into a slight rethink, because he can
no longer accommodate his De Vere 515 floor standing 15"x12" enlarger (yes,
that is 15x12 negatives, not prints!). Hence he now develops the LF film,
scans and prints. His current set up is a Heidelberg drum scanner (replacing
an Imacon) with a wide format Epson printer . The De Vere is for sale,
should anybody be interested - I doubt that there are many available.
And here's the reason I was talking to him - a friend has just bought the
redundant Imacon scanner, and he delivered and installed it. I saw the first
three scans from a 6x7 transparency, a 6x4.5 mono negative and a 35mm
negative. The results are little short of stupendous.
I was impressed enough with the results from my Zeiss Ikonta, scanned on an
Epson 4990. But to get a true view of the image on film, I need to book time
on that Imacon! Film lives on :-)
Piers
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From: Moose [mailto:olymoose@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 18 January 2011 05:29
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: 280 megapixels
On 1/17/2011 6:48 PM, Bill Pearce wrote:
> . . . And really, I've never seen an inkjet print that I thought would
equal a good wet print.
Perhaps y'all need to get out more? :-)
Having within a few days of each other seen Bob's gallery prints and
original prints by folks like St. Ansel, Edward Weston and their
contemporaries, mostly 8x10 contact prints, my experience is that top notch
B&W wet and inkjet* prints are on a visual par.
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