Black and white photography
Dec 3, 2021 21:56:09 #
jackm1943 wrote:
I'm not going to apologize for ordering LightJet p... (show quote)
That's a good process!
I don't hear you apologizing. No need to, anyway. Lightjets were great back in the day... late 1990s... arguably the best around.
There were many somewhat experimental digital printers back then. The weirdest ones were the Kodak CRT printers. We had three of them. They were crude devices that used multiple exposures from a monochrome CRT through (RGB) primary color filters to turn B&W data channels into color. Two of them were lower resolution devices that used 5" paper rolls. The other was the "Kodak Digital Multi-Printer". It was a big 11" roll CRT printer that used the same technology. Every time the trains would go past our building at the back border of our property, it would get out of alignment and we would have to stop printing and realign it. "For a digital printer, it's strictly analog," was my comment to the Kodak TSR. His admissive response was always, "Shhh!"
In 2001, we started using Noritsu digital mini-labs. They were decent technology. The first ones used liquid crystal light valves. The later ones used lasers. Our sister lab had a Kodak LED printer, a 20" roll printer that used an LED array on a long screw to paint across the paper, line by line. The paper was held in a drum, and the LED thingy spun inside it.
The same lab that had the LightJet later bought a Polielettronica: http://www.polielettronica.it/digital_printers.htm. THAT was a weird beast.
Dec 4, 2021 17:25:38 #
gmontjr2350
Loc: Southern NJ
warrenm wrote:
Thinking of doing more black and white and wonder if I should set my camera to shoot that style or just make the change in my photo editing program. Any suggestions?
I bought a Black and White photography course on Udemy back in 2014. BTW, I always wait until a course goes on sale because the list prices are way over my budget. The list prices seem kind of crazy, actually.
Anyway, this course is authored by David J. Nightingale and he covers various methods used to produce B&W from a color image.
He uses CS3 in the course, which I had access to at the time.
Dec 11, 2021 08:34:55 #
Dec 11, 2021 10:06:29 #
Longshadow wrote:
Personally, I'd shoot in color and make adjustments in an editor.
That way I'll also have the color version.
Some do, some don't.
depends on what floats your boat.
That way I'll also have the color version.
Some do, some don't.
depends on what floats your boat.
Dec 11, 2021 15:47:47 #
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