Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Austin Franklin" <
darkroom@i...> wrote:
> 
> 
> > --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Austin Franklin"
> > > > My argument was for a scanner capable of capturing more tones in the
> > > > same density range rather than more tones because of a larger density
> > > > range.
> > >
> > > What would you do with those tones?
> >
> > I would go crazy with the tones!  i would love them and feed them and
> > keep them forever and ever!
> 
> Unless you're scanning for another species, they are completely useless, and
> you will never see them in a final image that contains all the range of
> tones from the image.

Are you saying that todays scanners capture all the tones in any given 
negative or chrome, as long as their density is not out of the scanners 
range?

Because if you are I don't agree. Film is analog, and while it might 
not be practical to call it infinite, it still has an awful lot of 
tones.

You could use a scanner like that and see them in a print if you 
expanded a small section of tones to use the whole gamut.


-mikeH