Digital BW, The Print

Mark,

Very beautiful and inspiring work as always!

Now if you really want to have your mind blown, scan one of those 8x10 negs
on a drum scanner at 4000 or 8000 dpi and zoom around the image. The detail
will make you want to try some 40x60 prints. <G>

Martin Wesley

http://www.borderless-photos.de/guests.html



----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Tucker" <mtucker508@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 6:06 AM
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: 4x5 Neg Scan Resolution


> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Shire,Stanley" <sshire@c...>
wrote:
> > Geez! How many of us are printing 44"x33" prints (that is approximately
> > = to a 500meg file?)
>
> I'll tell you guys what -- it might not be that practical, but it's still
enlightening. I
> shot a personal project, where I shot these teenage kids that hang out at
this
> local "artsy coffeehouse"; I shot them on 8x10 BW film, and then scanned
those
> on an Agfa T2500. The files were, in short, just massive. Out of control.
Huge.
> But given this, there was still this very beautiful quality to the files,
since the
> scans came from such giant film.
>
> The whole approach of scanning giant film on a flatbed is so different
from
> scanning 120 film on an Imacon. In general, I'm always loyal to the
Imacon, due to
> the amazing sharpness and the killer software, but I was surprised and
very
> satisfied with these flatbed scans from 8x10. I could have gone wall-size
with
> the prints, with gorgeous tonal range and depth.
>
> http://www.marktucker.com/bongo/
>
> Just the portraits were shot with the 8x10. The kids did their own mat and
gave
> it back to me.
>
> But the point is: I'm jonesing for another 8x10. I know it's because that
now I own
> a 9600, and there's a part of me that is dying to see a 44" wide print
that's still
> 3-D razor sharp. If you've never shot big format, it's certainly an
education; I
> can't imagine how anybody would be disappointed (unless you're a sports
> photographer...)
>
> MT, http://www.marktucker.com
>
>
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