Digital BW, The Print

At 07:16 PM 7/8/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>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
>>          or
>> keyword.com lookaround
>>
>>
>>
Godfrey,

Wow, you've stayed "clean" for ten years! 

There are PS plug-ins that apply TX grain - isn't that special?  Is VueScan
better than the SilverFast that comes with the 2450? I set the scan at
"extra sharpen" when I go 1800dpi or higher. Is that not good?  Also you
have found the sweet spot for distance from the glass. I've been using AN
glass flat on the top - no holders.  Wonder if I should try raising the neg
by slight increments?  

AZ
Maker of Lookaround panoramic camera.
http://www.panoramacamera.us
         or
keyword.com lookaround