Dave Wilkinson
Veteran
....brave man! - whenever I mention mine anywhere, I just open myself to ridicule!...but it's the best thing I bought for years! (ask Mr.Rockwell
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David_Manning
Well-known
The one really advantageous thing about scanning in a hybrid workflow, is the ability to print images which would be very difficult (if not impossible) to print well.
As we all know, traditional paper won't hold many stops of latitude, so we try to do analog HDR by dodging/burning/chemical manipulating. I think this is where hybrid is an equalizer...a decent scan (not even a top-notch scan) will capture much more information than I can easily get in an optical print (I'm partially the limitation there, admittedly...printing is a very time-consuming art).
This is an example of a Tri-X scan which really let me down in the darkroom under the enlarger, but shone when it was scanned and then printed by a Durst Theta on real b&w optical paper in chemistry:
As we all know, traditional paper won't hold many stops of latitude, so we try to do analog HDR by dodging/burning/chemical manipulating. I think this is where hybrid is an equalizer...a decent scan (not even a top-notch scan) will capture much more information than I can easily get in an optical print (I'm partially the limitation there, admittedly...printing is a very time-consuming art).
This is an example of a Tri-X scan which really let me down in the darkroom under the enlarger, but shone when it was scanned and then printed by a Durst Theta on real b&w optical paper in chemistry: