Digital BW, The Print

I've participated in several print exchanges and have a couple
of Jerry's prints. He makes excellent prints.

Austin can do the math till he's blue in the face. To my eye
Jerry's prints speak for themselves.

 From my perspective, it ain't about the numbers, it's about
the pictures.

Cheers,
JimD


At 12:28 PM 10/15/2002 -0400, Austin Franklin wrote:
>Hi Jerry,
>
> > I am looking at
> > VERY good images.
>
>Whether an image looks "VERY good" or not, has nothing to do with the image
>containing "better highlights and shadow detail".
>
> > If
> > you can't get better highlight and shadow
> > detail out of photoshop and digitial than you can a darkroom print, you
> > simply don't know your craft very well.
>
>I don't understand what Photoshop as to do with it.  Either the information
>is there in the image file, or on the film, or not.  I am specifically
>talking about the number of stops the medium is able to record, I don't care
>about printing, as that is comparing apples to adverbs.  You can print
>scanned film digitally the same way you print digital camera images.  I
>believe printing is an entirely different issue, and I separate that
>out...though I know you seem to believe film should only be printed
>chemically, and always choose that workflow for comparison, for what ever
>reason.
>
>B&W film can record up to 15 stops of image information.  Digital imaging
>sensors can't use compensation development, obviously, and are subject to
>simply the sensitivity of the sensor, and they are limited to 11/12 stops at
>this point in time.
>
>Regards,
>
>Austin
>
>
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