Digital BW, The Print

It would be absolutely impossible to get as good of a scan from a print
as you could from its negative. You CAN, however get a very nice looking
inkjet print from a scan of a print, especially if you make your copy no
larger than the original. But no matter how much detail you get from a
scanned print, it is 10 times less detail than you could pull out of
negative. This really shows up when you want a 18 inch copy print, from
say, a wallet size photo. The detail just isn't there in a print.

Jerry



"Shire,Stanley" wrote:
> 
> I must be missing something here. Scanning from a print rather than a
> neg?
> Wayne Fulton (www.scantips.com <http://www.scantips.com/> ) does a
> fairly extensive section to show that scanning a (color) print at
> greater than 200 spi doesn't gain anything (other than file size.)
> Granted, the Epson folks are talking about scanning a BW print but I
> cannot imagine that a better result is obtained from a print, rather
> than a neg scan. Any thoughts here?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: glewis4457@... [mailto:glewis4457@...]
> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 10:28 AM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: b&w neg or colour transparency
> 
> In a message dated 1/29/2003 11:01:17 AM Central Standard Time,
> DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com writes:
> 
> > On Monday, January 27, 2003, at 07:25 PM, Bill Iverson
> > <wiverson@...> wrote:
> >
> > >How about color negative vs. B&W negative?  ...
> >
> > For a year I tried shooting the finest-grained color negative film I
> could
> > find -- Konica Impresa 50.  However, after that extended experiment, I
> > returned to B&W film.  The increased grain after "filtration" in the
> > computer out-weighed the advantages of the color information.
> >
> 
> FWIW....When I took the Epson Print Academy workshop they recommended
> scanning b/w from a good print rather than from a b/w neg.
> 
> Jerry in Houston
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