R9 film-v-R9DMR for monochrome?

[dhsimmonds]

I am wondering if any member here has made a direct comparison between a good b&w image taken with an R8/9 developed in fine grain developer, scanned and printed digitally and the same subject, same lighting, same lens used with the DMR back?

A similar comparison could be made of course between am M7 and M8 but here we would be comparing with different shutters/metering systems.

[topoxforddoc]

Dave,

Having just resurrected my wet darkroom, I'm bewitched again by the tonal range that I'm getting from trad silver prints. At the moment I'm finding it difficult to reproduce this on my Epson R800. OK maybe I should go to a R2400 or a R3800.

If I'm just looking at the screen, then the R9/DMR is pretty good on mono as well. I just can't get it to print as well as wet prints.

Charlie

[dhsimmonds]

Charlie

I was prompted to ask this question after seeing some work produced by a fine art photographer who captured his images with film (T-Max) and scanned the negs, processed them in photoshop, including sepia or selenium toning using plug-in software then printed using Epson K3 type pigment inks.

The tonal range of his prints was just staggering! He reckoned much better than he could get using silver halide developing methods.

I asked him if he had tried a pro16 bit digital back and he hasn't! I was thinking of the DMR of course!