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Re: [Digital BW] Time taken on individual prints, re: Jerry Olson's statement

2002-07-25 by Stan McQueen

At 04:31 PM 7/24/2002, Herb wrote:
>In the Austin/Jerry interchange on digital vs. film, Jerry said the
>following:
>
> > 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 DEEVOTE THAT MUCH TIME TO A SINGLE
> > IMAGE. [emphasis added]
> >
> > Jerry
>
>That statement really surprised me.
>
>I figure that when you're printing out digital snapshot photos
>someone might have a really abbreviated workflow.
>
>But I always figured that you hotshot photographers labored for hours
>over your prize photos.  Is that not true, Jerry?

I believe Jerry was talking about traditional unsharp masking in the 
darkroom, not digital unsharp masking in PhotoShop.

Stan

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