On Fri, November 5, 2010 10:32, PhotoRoy6@xxxxxxx wrote: > > I know of a case where an photographer started an edition in dye and had a > printing company do the printing. Photographer had the prints printed up > only when he sold them. Over time the printing company got tired of > keeping the old dye machine around when they had moved on to pigment > prints. Thus > the later numbered prints in the edition had a more archival life span > than > the earlier numbered one printed on dye. So the reverse of the lithograph > editions where the earlier numbered prints in an edition are more valuable > becomes true in the technological advancements in printing. That's kind of amusing! Of course, with some photographers with long editions of darkroom photo prints, the printing sometimes changed enough that one might have a preference for one end or the other (and, if you're lucky, your personal preference might be contrary to the market preference). -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@xxxxxxxx; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info
