[rollei_list] Re: Enlarger versus printer?

  • From: william schillereff <pastorbill6@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 17:11:06 -0700

I have toed that same difference between the Jet Prints and the enlarger
prints.  My explanation is enlarger images are actually an etch of silver
from negative to print.  A while ago Rangefinder Mag has a stark black and
white prints of a man of color.  It was perfect in tone, brilliant a great
digital print.  Yet there was that tonal grain on finds in a darkroom
print and it was that which was missing.  Maybe it is a missing part of
the print or maybe a divergence in the two art mediums or just call it
personal preference.  We who are old tend to hold on to the past but again
the past has much worth holding to.

A parting shot.  Does anyone know where to get a red colored bulb where it
is actually red glass and not painted.  They used to be called Ruby Bulbs
but any red glass will work.  I do not have mind at present and it is my
all time favorite darkroom bulb.

Bill

On 10/29/11 1:57 PM, "Bob James" <starboy0@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>So I have now sent 7 rolls through the Rollei TLR.  6 rolls of black and
>white and 1 of Velvia 50.
>
>I have a number of full frame prints from those rolls on 11x14 fiber
>paper.  I have noticed something quite different between the black and
>white prints and the color prints.  I'm wondering why?  And if it's just
>an incorrect perception.
>
>The color prints made from the slides are technically perfect:  colors
>spot on with that Velvia saturation and the resolution perfect.  But I
>think these were printed with ink and to me there is a flat look to them.
>
>The black and whites were printed with an enlarger and have a luminous
>quality that the color prints don't.  I'm wondering what is causing that
>perception?  Something real or just expectations.
>
>I have been in and out of photography since the 60's and one of my "out"
>phases was just recently when digital took over.  I am completed ignorant
>of the differing technologies used to make prints these days.
>
>In any case I just got a Rollei for that bigger negative size and of
>course it is a camera I have dreamed of having since I was a little kid.
>
>Take care,
>Bob James
>
>
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