Experts tell us that the dynamic range in digital capture is now every bit the equal of film. And since I've never ever done 100% B&W digital workflow- who am I to argue?
So I'll just say this: it's downright peculiar that bad B&W darkroom prints could look bad in a
THOUSAND different ways (I know- I probably invented a few), and bad digital prints tend to have that same
telltale signature badness- washed out highlights in scenes of high contrast along with overall tonal gradations that seem to have been reduced from somewhere around infinite to about, ohhh... half a dozen. Really freakin' weird that so many are getting it so wrong... the same exact way!
PS- Guess I answered my own question... instead of countless repetitions of
every different kind of bad- we now have countless repetitions of one kinda bad. Now that there's Progress!!!
Update: Ode to Tri-X.
Update: Ode to Tri-X.
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