Digital BW, The Print

on 7/24/2002 10:22 AM, DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com at
DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com wrote:

> Re: Canon D60 Question

 

Jerry et. al:

Jerry, when you say that closeups look sharper than "wide shots" this sounds
to me like a little bit more resolution is needed. It's like shooting video,
(not high def), the closeups look acceptably sharp, but the wide shots look
kind of dull and blurry.  Meaningful detail is larger in the close up and it
looks ok.  The detail in the wide shot is too small to resolve at all and
looks hopelessly blurry. TV stations often crank up the "detailing" or
"sharpness" for video, resulting in a kind of electronic look on tv compared
to scanned films on tv.

I was working with a still photographer last fall who shot with a D30 and
printed to a fujix. The prints looked gorgeous, provided that they were
portraits but lacked detail in wider shots.  With the added detail of the
close up, sharpening was more effective, especially with digital as grain
did not increase when sharpening a lot, as would have happened with scanned
film.  I will say this, I did not like what the camera did with the
highlights when they were too bright to capture along with the shadows, even
when capturing raw files.  I must say that the speed of digital allowed this
photographer to sell a lot of prints on the spot straight from the fujix,
which also printed colors no ink can come close to, especially in the dark
colors (oops, I forgot this is the b&w forum, never mind).

Just trying to spice up this lively conversation...I'm looking forward to
seeing some of these D60 photos in upcoming print exchanges! Keep up the
good work.

-Bruce

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