Digital BW, The Print

Jerry,

> 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.

Now we're getting somewhere.  BTW, you CAN absolutely sharpen chemical
images.  The sharpening techniques used in PS CAME from the wet darkroom
techniques.

You ARE not comparing scanned film to digital images?  Also, photographic
paper has a lot to do with the sharpness of the images.  You simply are not
doing a legit comparison.  You should be comparing the D-60 -> 1280 workflow
vs the film -> photographic paper workflow.  That's entirely different than
your claims.

> 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.

How about we compare a scanned piece of film on a 5080 scanner vs your D60,
printed all on the same paper/printer etc????  Up for that?

Austin