Digital BW, The Print

You are dead right - it is better to leave sharpening until PS, BUT the
optics in the 1680 are so soft that I need both. BTW I only do this in BW -
for colour I do all the sharpening (I use Ultra Sharpen Pro) in PS. One test
I do is to take a blank neg and use a sharp knife to make a score and then
experiment with various amounts of sharpening to get a fine line. Flatbed
scanners IME just cannot get the sharpness of a film scanner. People talk
resolution numbers all the time but ignore the 'look' of scanners. I note
that this is happening with cameras i.e. the Kodak is 'better' than the
canon because it has more megapixels, noone seems to be bothered about the
image quality!

Julian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alessandro Pardi" <alessandro.pardi@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 3:14 PM
Subject: RE: [Digital BW] RE: Is this noise or what? (was: Epson3200 - Test
results)


> Julian,
>
> do you get better results with a pre-sharpening at scan time? I always
read
> that it's better to leave the sharpening to Photoshop.
>
> Alessandro
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Julian Thomas [mailto:julianthomas@...]
> > Sent: domenica 16 marzo 2003 12:06
> > To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: Re: [Digital BW] RE: Is this noise or what? (was: Epson3200 -
> > Test results)
> >
> >
> >  I cannot get satisfactory scans (sharp) without applying 3x3
> > > pixel unsharp mask in the scanning application (Silverfast Ai 6).
> >
> > Me too on a 1680. I need a 3x3 in the scanner software plus the usual
> > unsharp mask tricks in PS. Just as an example - I had some
> > scans done on a
> > minolta of 6x6 cm negs. On the 1680 I have to use the same
> > amount of unsharp
> > mask on a 600x600 pixel 75ppi jpeg as i did on the 4800ppi
> > minolta tiff
> > file. Colour is harder as the 3x3 gives me a halo effect. I've started
> > shooting a BW landscape project (ok Nij stop laughing) and the lackof
> > sharpness is pissing me off big time
> >
> > Julian
> >
> >
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