Steve,
Your post is argumentative and incorrect. You obviously don't know what a scan can and can not do. Further, there are other parts of the printing process, film is not the end result. The gamut of digital printing is more controllable and wider and longer than any darkroom paper - about double.
Some people like the look and feel of darkroom papers, whether it be b&w or color. They should be free to use those and not be told it isn't very good. In the right hands its amazing.
However, by the same token, those who have chosen to print digitally shouldn't be told that its less, because in the right hands it is also amazing.
Personally, I can't imagine printing on silver paper - it offers so much less than what I have now. I might do platinum, carbon and or gravure again, but I certainly wouldn't go back to the darkroom, as the quality I look for ins't there. That's the key point - its very subjective.
Telling me that the scan can't cover the complete gamut, however, is patently ridiculous... it covers far more than any traditional process can....
Lenny
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