Digital BW, The Print

Thanks for the compliment, Alan.

I can't tell you what silver prints look like from those negatives since 
I have not printed anything in a darkroom for about 10 years. Be that as 
it may, the 7x10 on 8.5x11" paper prints I made have a wonderful texture 
to them and image the grain pretty nicely.

All the SDII & 2450 scans in the test were scanned with VueScan  ... No 
sharpening or any other modifications at all were made to the images in 
the test sample, the full frame images were simply JPEG compressed a lot 
and the detail snippets were JPEG compressed as little as possible. Yes, 
a little unsharp mask with Photoshop snaps them up beautifully, as they 
do all negative scans. Gotta clean up that quantization error... :-)

Godfrey


On Monday, July 8, 2002, at 09:00 PM, Alan Zinn wrote:

> Godfrey,
>
> I liked the Tessina pictures. How does the "grain" differ from silver
> prints? Do the scanned pictures have an all together different look to
> someone who is used to seeing real film grain in prints?
>
> I looked at the eight slide tests and think the Minolta does a better 
> job of
> accurately scanning dust :-) Seriously, the 2450 holds it's own - I
> sharpened a bit more one of the 2450's and got the bottle labels to 
> clean up
> some. What sharpness level on the 2450 were they scanned?
>
> AZ
>
> Maker of Lookaround panoramic camera.
> http://www.panoramacamera.us
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