I agree with your comments about the incessant craze for BLACK. We really did get off track. --- DarkroomMagic <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The only thing, I'm really sure of, Dmax is > over-rated. A good image does > not need a solid black! ..... People made perfect prints when papers reached Dmax at 1.5 to 1.7. Making > papers now, which can reach 2.1 to 2.3, has not made > those prints obsolete, > but it has provided a lot of prints with too much > contrast. > > Old printers always knew the value of highlight > printing. The obsession with > increasing Dmax got us off-track. Take a look at > Sally Man to see what I > mean. yesyesyesyesyes......... ! __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.