Scanning VS Lab print (price,clients)

[Grinschus]

Halllo to everyone,

i am pretty new(bie) to scanprocess, so please forgive

i am freelancing photographer, working digital. Since a year i learned more and more about the advantages from analog, tried to get in the subject - at the begining for my own and for fun.

My workflow is:
a. shooting (120/6x6), give the rolls the to a lab which scanns them on a noritsu and makes chemical-prints.
b. sometimes Enlarging on my own. (i do not have an own darkroom)

At the end i digitalize them on flatbed (for web-presentation)

I am really in love with the chemical results and thinking about involving the analog workflow into my job.

Talking about time/money:

i think there are two kind of workflows/clients:

1. Mass of pictures for private clients (for wedding for example). Here i wsa thinking about sending everything to the lab and let them do the work.

2. My own projects - the reason i opened this thread: the work/pictures i sell sometimes to magazines.
When i do this projects at the end i have most of the time 20-30 pictures (30 % of them is a pool the people in the magazines can choose from, too. So it is somekind of backup
For this i need a workflow(it should be aswell price-ecnomic, time is not a question), which would include postproduction and printing up to A3 (double-site) from a 6x6 fomat. My lab does only enlarging up to 30x40, so my pictures are 30 cm x30 cm. This into A3 would mean loosing quality, wouldn't it?
In this case i would also like to keep control of the colors until the end. Post-production of scanned enlraged-prints would also mean loosing qualitity, wouldn't it?

Most important thing:

I would like to keep the quality and especially the look of chemical enlarging.

What is/was the "normal way" of digitalizing when people made darkroom work and magazines wanted to print one of their pictures?

Now, I have the chance to buy a nikon coolscan 9000 and not sure what to do. Is it even possible to get the same results with this scanner? Maybe by scanning and light-jet printing and scanning again on a flatbed-scanner?
Does the "magic" happen at the point at printing on chemical-paper?

Thank you for the answers.

Best reagards,

luke

 

[pschwart]

I would like to keep the quality and especially the look of chemical enlarging.

And exactly how would you describe the "look of chemical enlarging"?

What is/was the "normal way" of digitalizing when people made darkroom work and magazines wanted to print one of their pictures?

Scanning the negative is preferable to scanning a print -- fewer generations, so higher quality.

Now, I have the chance to buy a nikon coolscan 9000 and not sure what to do. Is it even possible to get the same results with this scanner? Maybe by scanning and light-jet printing and scanning again on a flatbed-scanner?

A well-made inkjet print will exceed what most printers can achieve in the darkroom, especially in color. Seek out some quality prints you can examine up close. Done well, digital prints are
extremely high quality.If you want to print in the darkroom, do it -- it's a different experience.
FYI: A3 prints from Nikon 9000 6x6 scans are no problem; use a glass carrier for edge-to-edge sharpness.