Show your Digital and Traditional "Contact" Photo thread

[audioexcels]

The Majority agrees the digitally processed contact print is no different than a regular contact print and/or can be made to look the same.

Lets see photos of the group's digitally processed contact prints AND traditionally processed contact prints.

And please, no "you cannot tell based on a webshot" when I have prints in my hand that look nearly identical to what I have had posted on the web.

Looking forward to seeing the photos so bring them on instead of beating down a dead horse about papers, resolution, etc. etc...

[Marko]

And please, no "you cannot tell based on a webshot" when I have prints in my hand that look nearly identical to what I have had posted on the web.

Looking forward to seeing the photos so bring them on instead of beating down a dead horse about papers, resolution, etc. etc...

Wouldn't it just be easier to post digital images directly? According to what you just said yourself, there's almost no difference between a print and the screen image anyway, so why not eliminate the middleman...

[audioexcels]

Wouldn't it just be easier to post digital images directly? According to what you just said yourself, there's almost no difference between a print and the screen image anyway, so why not eliminate the middleman...

Yes. Use your DSLR cameras or a decent enough flatbed to show the actual prints (not negatives).

Goal is to see what an image done traditionally looks as of year 2008 vs. one that has been scanned and printed at the same size as it was traditionally printed.

[Jeffrey Sipress]

I've got thousands of digital images, but don't post them here.

Are you simply referring to negative scans?

[audioexcels]

Example:

Choose the size of film that was used, be it 4X5-20X24.

Take a 4X5 negative as an example and:

Post your photo of the 4X5 Contact printed the traditional way

Vs.

The same image scanned and then printed onto whatever paper at the same 4X5 contact size.



Post photos of your traditional contact print vs. your scanned and then printed to a contact size print.

[cotdt]

Post photos of your traditional contact print vs. your scanned and then printed to a contact size print.

pointless, they would look exactly the same!

[audioexcels]

pointless, they would look exactly the same!

http://flickr.com/photos/laurensimonutti/
http://flickr.com/photos/tscarlisle/378448891/

These above look obvious like a contact print. One is a Polaroid, the other contact.


This one below looks obviously like a scanned shot...

http://flickr.com/photos/94919422@N00/1652848453/


The two above (contact/polaroid) have a quality of dimensionality that the scanned film does not. I see this in "all" photos that have been scanned vs. contact printed. I'm wanting to see one that has been scanned and looks like the above contact/polaroid shots...

[David A. Goldfarb]

Example:

Choose the size of film that was used, be it 4X5-20X24.

Take a 4X5 negative as an example and:

Post your photo of the 4X5 Contact printed the traditional way

Vs.

The same image scanned and then printed onto whatever paper at the same 4X5 contact size.

Post photos of your traditional contact print vs. your scanned and then printed to a contact size print.

I had no idea that this was what you meant by "Digital Contact Photo." It would be clearer to call them "digital 1:1 reproductions from scans" or something. A "contact" print implies contact. If I saw the phrase "digital contact print," I would assume that meant a hybrid print using a traditional photographic process (e.g., gelatin silver, pt/pd, cyanotype, carbon, etc.) from a digital negative printed on a clear substrate (e.g., inkjet on OHP film, gelatin silver film using a film recorder or LightJet, etc.).

I don't know what "majority" can't tell these things apart. Prints in hand, they're pretty easy to distinguish, in my experience.

[audioexcels]

I had no idea that this was what you meant by "Digital Contact Photo." It would be clearer to call them "digital 1:1 reproductions from scans" or something. A "contact" print implies contact. If I saw the phrase "digital contact print," I would assume that meant a hybrid print using a traditional photographic process (e.g., gelatin silver, pt/pd, cyanotype, carbon, etc.) from a digital negative printed on a clear substrate (e.g., inkjet on OHP film, gelatin silver film using a film recorder or LightJet, etc.).

I don't know what "majority" can't tell these things apart. Prints in hand, they're pretty easy to distinguish, in my experience.

There's a relatively long thread with the majority stating a digital 1:1 print with the new papers available looks indistinguishable from a contact. Many say that a 4X5enlarged to an 8X10 size (via digital 1:1) and printed on whatever paper does the magic will look just like an 8X10 contact print.

[John O'Connell]

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