[rollei_list] Re: Ruby darkroom lamp
- From: "Maurice M. Greeson" <maurice@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 07:20:00 -0600
On Oct 30, 2011, at 6:11 PM, william schillereff wrote:
> 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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