Digital Silver Imaging

The February 2011  issue of Shutterbug magazine features an interview with Eric Luden, the founder of Digital Silver Imaging.  You may remember an earlier post about this company, which provides traditional silver gelatin wet darkroom prints from digital files.  If not, here is the link to the prior post.  Mr. Luden, as it turns out, is a former executive at Ilford Photo.  The article doesn't identify the interviewer, but maybe it was a robot as the first question is: "With the advent of digital imaging, have photographers forgotten about black and white?"  This leads, of course, to an answer describing all the ways photographers are doing black and white in the digital age.  So the second question seems really odd to me: "Has digital imaging made black and white obsolete?"  Uh, no. The whole "interview" seems to be one goofy question after another, as if the questions were written in one email with no thought, or even understanding, as to the concepts.  However, the bottomline from Mr. Luden's responses (which are far better than the questions) is clear enough - Digital Silver Imaging can take your digital file and make a traditional, wet darkroom, archival, neutral tone, fiber based, silver gelatin print from it.  Cool.