Digital BW, The Print

No need to defend Paul.He is quite capable of doing that for himself.
One thought though.Given his approach to this with film scans in the "olden days" it comes to mind that the image sizing and mathematics methods might even have some application to improving slightly out of focus areas in any image.That could include single legacy shots that could be helped.It might even be better used with color to black and white conversions.Even today with digital captures it seems that a major problem has been color fringing which, to me, is very similar in effect to other focus issues.At micro scale it's always been there with color film as well, leading to multiple emulsion construction and quality difficulties in manufacture and use.

JMHO, I have no problem with conversations that can help toward improving anything along the way to the end point of a print in hand or on the wall.We can always learn new things.

Regards,
Duane


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul" <roark.paul@...> wrote:
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> The appropriate scope of this forum is certainly an issue about which reasonable people may differ.  I thought the focus stacking workflow was on the fringe, so I tried to label is as such. However, the appropriate scope for "digital B&W printing" does have some uncertainty in it.  There is certainly more to B&W printing than ink.  And it is worth discussing this issue.
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