Digital BW, The Print

At the luminous landscape site there has been several comparisons
between digital and film. Digital has always won in comparison to Provia
35mm film, at least in the samples I saw a year or so ago before I
bought my D30 and D60.

> Hum.  You want to compare a device that gives you 6M BYTES of data with one
> that gives you 72M BYTES of data, and believe their image "quality" is the
> same?

Sure do. It is the same in the prints I've seen at the sizes I've
stated. I don't give a whit what any technician says about all this
blather. I know what my eyes see, and while they are not the greatest
eyebulbs in the world, they sure can tell in side by side prints what I
see. 

Are you trying to tell me that provia film is  nearly 10 times sharper
than the D60 at say, 20 inch images?

I'll fall down laughing. :)

> > But perceived image quality may approach that of film
> > because of the low noise-- the absence grain.

Whatever it is, I'm totally and completely satisfied with my D60, and
can consistently beat 35mm film in quality at the size prints I make.
Sharper. Better highlight detail. Better Shadow detail. Consistently. No
question, no doubt about it. 

Once again, if you are talking about superexpensive scanners, you're
right. I'm just talking ordinary equipment your average photographer has
access to in his own digital darkroom. 

Jerry

'Time Flies Straight as an Arrow.
Fruit Flies like a banana'

Harry Palmer
Also Groucho marx, et. al.