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Re: [Digital BW] Canon D60 Question

2002-07-24 by Jerry Olson

Simple Austin.  You can't sharpen a provia slide before you print it in
the darkroom on let say, a cibachrome type paper. You get it as sharp as
your enlarging lens allows. 

You CAN sharpen digital images, and quite a bit when it comes to the D60
and D30.

All I care about is the final print. and THAT is sharper with my digital
images than with darkroom images.  

I suppose you could use the unsharp mask when printing 35mm color
prints, but I REALLY couldn't be bothered with the hassle that that
would be, nor would I ever devote that much time to a single image.

Jerry


> As I've said a hundred times, if not a thousand...why on earth are you
> comparing sharpened images with unsharpened images and saying the sharpened
> ones are shaper?  No kidding.

See above

> Well, no, not if you sharpen BOTH images the same...

See above

> No.  Currently FILM resolves more, period, not debatable.  "Resolving" has
> NOTHING to do with sharpness.

I care only about the final prints, and I can get better digital images
than photogrphic prints in the darkroom. Period.

Jerry
>

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