Digital BW, The Print

Julian,

I am sorry to report that George has left the group as well as the 
Piezo group overwhelmed by the volume of posts the two lists 
generates and the demands of his own schedule. He is still on the 
Piezo Pro list, which I gather is by invitation only. He will be 
missed. He is a great guy. If you go back to one of his posts on this 
list, open it, and click on his e-mail address you can send him a 
message directly. I would say your chances of an answer are high.

In the meantime I will take a shot at your questions:

I believe that he wants you get the exact optical resolution out of 
the scanner. Genuine Fractals will no a much better job of resampling 
your files that any resampling software either Vuescan, Silverfast or 
whatever. I think he is speaking of resampling not resizing.

I am not quite following your next quesion and you may be mixing scan 
dpi, final print dpi and print size. The important thing is the scan 
dpi. If you don't resample, the file size stays the same no matter 
what the print size is.

I have not worked with GF but from what I have read this is a step 
you would apply just prior to printing and would not necessarily save 
to your primary file but perhaps to a print file for a specific sized 
print.

I would take a raw scan from Vuescan, resize it without resampling in 
PS, do all your manipulations, save this as a master file. Prior to 
printing resample using GF, sharpen if desired and then print.

I know George is a big fan of Silverfast and I like it too. That 
doesn't mean you can't accomplish the same things with different 
tools and workflows. Since you will have both, you can try it each 
way.

Hope some of that helps.

Martin


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Julian Thomas" 
<julianthomas@t...> wrote:
> Hi George,
> After my qs to the list re what to do with an epson 1680, I've now 
got your
> article from Camera Arts. I have 2 questions: why do you say that 
it is
> important not to allow the scanner software to set a size, but to 
output at
> 100% and resize in GF? Also why is Silverfast so vital as opposed to
> something like Vuescan?
> I normally use only BW 35 film (now changing), printing to Piezo. I 
scan at
> 4000dpi 16bit 'raw' and allow Vuescan to give me a file sized at 
about 12in
> max width (about a 20meg file). I then save in GF and up or down 
the size
> slightly from there. I used to use an older version of Silverfast 
(which I
> paid for!!) but wasn't happy with the raw scans.
> 
> Julian
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