{"id":37,"date":"2013-01-09T13:23:04","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T13:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/?p=37"},"modified":"2015-03-20T05:15:46","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T05:15:46","slug":"traditional-black-and-white-prints-from-digital-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/traditional-black-and-white-prints-from-digital-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Traditional black and white prints from digital files?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_40\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/traditional-black-and-white-prints-from-digital-files\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40\" class=\" wp-image-40\" title=\"View of the 'London eye' from Millbank\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODdhAQABAPAAAP\/\/\/wAAACwAAAAAAQABAEACAkQBADs=\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/DSC6373-9x6.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white view of the 'London eye' from Millbank, looking acriss the river Thames.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/DSC6373-9x6.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/DSC6373-9x6-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/DSC6373-9x6-449x300.jpg 449w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 500px\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40\" class=\" wp-image-40\" title=\"View of the 'London eye' from Millbank\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/DSC6373-9x6.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white view of the 'London eye' from Millbank, looking acriss the river Thames.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/DSC6373-9x6.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/DSC6373-9x6-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/DSC6373-9x6-449x300.jpg 449w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 500px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-40\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">View of the &#8216;London eye&#8217; from Millbank, in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/photo-gallery\/\">online gallery<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So, following on from my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/17\/\">post about digital silver gelatin processing<\/a>, it seems that it is readily available and I&#8217;m probably the last person find out about it.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->OK, not so readily available, as it seems limited to certain Ilford suppliers (or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilfordlab.com\/page\/61\/Black-and-White-Prints-From-Digital.htm\">Ilford themselves<\/a>). Nonetheless, on a trip to London, it allowed to try this method out and I&#8217;m impressed. I haven&#8217;t done a side-by-side comparison yet, but my images certainly did come out with very nice prints. Good dynamic range and detail.<\/p>\n<p>So far I&#8217;ve only tried the glossy paper and am awaiting the &#8216;pearl&#8217; versions. Of course, it is impossible to show how this looks online \u2013 I could scan different versions, from different suppliers and technologies, but the usefulness of this would be limited. And, of course, it&#8217;s hard to know how much of the quality is due to one supplier being more skilled or taking more care over their print output, versus the technology itself.<\/p>\n<p>But what I particularly like is that this is a dedicated black and white approach from Ilford &#8211; they actually prefer that you supply greyscale images, as opposed to RGB (so many photo\u00a0bureaus that I&#8217;ve used in the past have returned tinted prints from RGB files, despite me being careful about my conversions and colour profiles).<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, following on from my post about digital silver gelatin processing, it seems that it is readily available and I&#8217;m probably the last person find out about it.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mono","category-tech","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2102,"href":"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/2102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crunchyspaces.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}