Digital BW, The Print

Hi,

Let me offer a few personal observations, as a user of a Fuji S1 Pro, 
and also a Large fomat camera, transparencies from which I drum 
scan.  

I use the S1 mainly for portraits.  I notice you are in to 
portraits.  I thinks the S1 excells at portraits, so much so that I 
ditched my medium format camera and lenses when I found I got better 
results from the S1.  I cannot really explain this, as it seems 
logically absurd.  It may have something to do with the Fuji 
interpolation system.  I always have the S1 set to 6mp output, which 
of course involves in-camera "super-CCD" interplolation. Whatever the 
reason the results are great.  I imagine they will be even better 
with the S2.

With other material, the S1 is very good, but it cannot compete of 
course with Large Format.  It's still a lot better than I expected, 
however.  I'm looking right at this moment at a B&W Piezography print 
I have just printed of a windmill, rezzed up with Genuine Fractals to 
300 dpi at 17" x 11", and then sharpened with Nik Sharpener before 
printing.  From 2 feet away, it looks superb.  Closer up, you start 
to notice the absence of absolute detail in the fine brickwork, but 
how often do you look that closely at prints?

Based on my S1 experience, I would therefore expect you to be very 
happy with the S2 for portrait work, and happy with it also for other 
work.  If you get it, I doubt you'll touch your 35mm Nikon  ever 
again, excpet to sell it :-).  In fact, I'd expect your Mamiya RB67 
to stay on the shelf most of the time. I wouldn't wait around for 
Foveon.  What we have now is very good, and getting better.  

--
Quentin

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "elcariso" <hotshovel@h...> 
wrote:
> Hello everyone,,I'm currently using a 35mm Nikon and a Mamiya RB67.
> I print my own B&W Portraits usually to 11x14,,sometimes 16X20. I'm 
> considering going Digital and selling all my gear,Buying a fuji S2 
> Pro,or a cannon D60,until Feveon makes a chip that is 35mm size 
with 
> 6+ megapixals in something other than a sigma body.I came to this 
> conclusion buy reading web sites. I don't personally know any body 
> digital. I'm wondering if I will get the Quality Prints I'm use to?
> I'm considering an Epson 1280 or 3000. Piezography or Genuine 
> Fractals,can they be used together? I'm looking at a Mac G4 dual 
gig.
> I would appreciate any feed back.am I on the right track in my 
> choices? Thanks Bob Hill ,San Clemente Island Ca. 
> hotshovel@h...