Over the past few months have read that two (master) Platinum/Palladium printers have switched from capturing their images with LF and ULF film cameras, scanning, and making digital negatives to simply shooting digital and then going directly to making digital negatives.

I did three Whole Plate Pt/Pl prints. One shot on Whole Plate film, scanned, made a digital negative, and printed a Pt/Pl print. Second shot on 6x7 film, scanned, made a digital negative, and printed a Pt/Pl print. Third shot with a Nikon D4, made a digital negative, and printed a Pt/Pl print. There are slight differences in the tonalities but sharpness a toss up. Showed them to some fellow photographers. All agreed that they differed a bit in their tonalities, but to pick out which was which not possible. The Achilles heal to this comparison might be that all were printed from digital negatives. Printing directly from film negatives verses digital negatives, the prints might look a lot different, but I print only from calibrated digital negatives to save a lot of $$.

Was wondering what other photographer's thoughts were on this.