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MayaTlab wrote:
There are several labs in Paris that can do both types of digital negatives (inkjet on special paper, or Kodak LVT). I'm surprised that you're using the inkjet technique combined with an enlarger - no lab in Paris does this as, according to them, the resolution of inkjet prints isn't good enough for enlargements. All the inkjet digital negatives they do are contact negatives (same size as the final print). Perhaps you don't enlarge your already rather large negatives much ?
Unless I need a contact print, I prefer the Kodak LVT technique. The digital negatives are much more resistant, can be enlarged to any print size, they have no discernible pattern and the noise is, of course, very natural. A 35mm-like negative area is enough for 40x60cm prints and you can put quite a lot of these on one sheet (to bring the price down per negative).
For both of these techniques, compared to a lambda print on B&W paper the resolution is better and you have a much broader choice of different papers (one of the things I dislike most with lambda B&W prints, in addition to the smoothening of very fine detail, is that only one neutral tone paper is available, and I tend to prefer warmer ones).
It's the technique Salgado uses for is fine art prints. He has Kodak LVT negatives made by Central Dupon : http://www.centraldupon.com
I used one of their computers once and there was a folder named "Sebastiao Salgado" on the desktop filled with pictures ready to be turned into digital negatives....Show more →
Well, I am glad that I seem to do something which isn't done by others . I print with my technique on quite large paper size, 14x11". The resolution output from my Pixma printer is excellent.
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