Digital BW, The Print

That's a good point. What the scanner sees may be more akin to the 
interference patterns of the light as it interacts with the grain 
structure of the film. Maybe even some defraction frings - but those 
would be almost impossibe to see. This is part of the reason I used a 
cold light head on my enlarger.

I've built darkrooms in three different houses over the past 25 years. 
We moved about two years ago and built a new house and I was getting the 
bug to build another darkroom in the basement. My wife put her foot down 
and demanded I check into digital instead of taking up space in the 
basement. Developing film doesn't take any space and I love my RB67. I 
want to thank eveyone for their input come upto speed on the issues in 
digital photography and what scanner and printer to aquire.  What I've 
learned has made my wife very happy:-).

Thanks again.

Truman

PS Anyone interested in buying an Omega 4x5 enlarger.

CDTobie@... wrote:

>
> The inkjet is less of an issue than the scanner... people often feel 
> they are
> "scanning down to the grain" when in fact they are seeing the first
> artifacting caused by grain interference, and a lot of that is noise, 
> with a
> "grainy" texture. For an image of the type you are looking for, any 
> form of
> grain, simulated grain (from a Photoshop filter) or noise from the 
> grain (in
> a medium rez scan) might do the trick... or you might want to be picky 
> and
> scan at very high rez to be sure you are capturing the film grain 
> accurately.
>
> Then the only printing issue is the resolution you are printing this 
> grain
> at; if its so fine the inkjet can't do it justice, its probably to 
> fine to be
> meaningful to the image at reasonable viewing distances. Of course 
> this would
> be an instance where you would want to use very high rez files to the
> printer. Not the typical 240 dpi, but 360 or more... even 720 dpi at 
> final
> print size, since you are not printing smooth grays, but something 
> more like
> a bit mapped black and white.
>
> C. David Tobie
> Design Cooperative
> CDTobie@...