Do autograph collectors prize autographs produced by the AutoPen?
I think the whole move to digital printing was out of convenience. I spend a whole day standing in the darkroom and I produce a handful of B&W prints. But if I really wanted to be productive I could hook 4-5 inkjet printers up to a few cheap PC's and have them going all day long. Instead of producing 12 prints of the same neg from 14 hours in the darkroom, I could produce 100-200. Plus I wouldn't need all that room I use for a darkroom .
To be honest if I worked in color, I wouldn't go the Burkett route. It's far too expensive and difficult to do it like he does, and he does it right. Then again when I was with Edward Carter Galleries I'd get to see a lot of his work, as well as similarly sized fuji crystal prints produced by another 8x10 chrome shooting landscape photographer and I have to say that the difference in print quality was significant. While I may not be moved much by Burkett's subject matter, I have to say that his printing is perhaps the best color printing you are ever likely to see.
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