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<blockquote data-quote="STM" data-source="post: 394640" data-attributes="member: 12827">The shortcomings of digital imaging aside, the printing medium itself, and I have a really excellent Canon Pixma 9000 Mk II and use high grade Kodak paper, is also a long ways off compared to a comparable high quality silver halide print. If you have ever seen a large print from a 4x5 negative printed on fiber based, double weight Oriental Seagull &quot;Cool Tone&quot; Grade 2 you would see what I mean. Night and day. I have a 20x30 inch print over my mantel I took of a snow covered lakeside scenic in the WA Cascades that I took with a borrowed Sinar P and 150mm f/5.6 Schneider Componon S and Kodak Plus-X that is truly something to behold, all pats on my back aside. It was one of those things when everything just came together.&nbsp; It cost me a pretty penny to have it professionally printed, because at the time I did not have the large size printing means to print it by myself, but it was worth every cent of it.When Kenny Rogers retired from recording, he spent nearly a year with the most esteemed John Sexton, who was Ansel Adams' &quot;star pupil&quot; and learned the ropes of large format photography. His work is absolutely gorgeous, only a heartbeat behind John's in my opinion. It was one of Kenny's winter images, a 16x20 print of which is hanging in my dining room (my wife still upon occasion reminds me of just how much it cost us), that was the inspiration for the print I did.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="STM, post: 394640, member: 12827"] The shortcomings of digital imaging aside, the printing medium itself, and I have a really excellent Canon Pixma 9000 Mk II and use high grade Kodak paper, is also a [I]long ways off[/I] compared to a comparable high quality silver halide print. If you have ever seen a large print from a 4x5 negative printed on fiber based, double weight Oriental Seagull "Cool Tone" Grade 2 you would see what I mean. Night and day. I have a 20x30 inch print over my mantel I took of a snow covered lakeside scenic in the WA Cascades that I took with a borrowed Sinar P and 150mm f/5.6 Schneider Componon S and Kodak Plus-X that is truly something to behold, all pats on my back aside. It was one of those things when everything just came together. It cost me a [I]pretty penny [/I]to have it professionally printed, because at the time I did not have the large size printing means to print it by myself, but it was worth every cent of it. When Kenny Rogers retired from recording, he spent nearly a year with the [I][I]most esteemed [/I][/I]John Sexton, who was Ansel Adams' [I]"star pupil" [/I]and learned the ropes of large format photography. His work is absolutely gorgeous, only a heartbeat behind John's in my opinion. It was one of Kenny's winter images, a 16x20 print of which is hanging in my dining room (my wife [I]still[/I] upon occasion reminds me of just how much it cost us), that was the inspiration for the print I did. [/QUOTE]

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