On May 12, 2006, at 4:59 PM, graywolf wrote:
I am willing to believe that there never were very many who were that good if you want to insist, but to say it can't be done is flying in the face of my own experience. And please also note that Sodium Vapor lighting has a noncontinuous spectrum and many printers claim you can not correct it at all. Unfortunately this was all before my father burnt the house down and those prints were lost with all the rest of my work.
It can look really really good, yes, but at a much higher cost and it will not be perfect. There will be something in there that will tip it off (even if 90% of people won't see it, other printers will). Also, with the advances made in the digital darkroom, the level of correction available today is actually higher (and the work is a little easier than in 1982).
But we're talking about a specific scenario that can be totally solved by just buying the right film -- buying the wrong film, filtering and trying to pull it out in the print is the wrong advice, don't you think?
-Aaron
