Digital BW, The Print

Sorry, folks, I just HAVE to agree with Austin on this. 

(My Coolpix can do that too--so??)

It's just an incomplete argument. In a Sinar view camera with a Schneider
lens --or what? 

I am NOT arguing film vs. digital, or anything close. Just incomplete data
as a basis for theories of fact.

Seth

=From: Austin Franklin [mailto:darkroom@...] 
=Claude,
=
=> I just printed a 13x19 Piezo print from a Sigma XD-9 sensor in a 
=> $1,500 Sigma camera from a $250 macro lens that IN THE PRINT shows 
=> more micro detail than
=> I could ever get from a 4x5 TriX optical print.
=
=Good grief, you make me laugh.  This is simply a foolish 
=statement, and I can't imagine how you expect anyone to take 
=you seriously.  I don't mean to be mean here, but you just say 
=things that have no basis in reality.  What did you do to the 
=poor Tri-X 4x5 to make it come out so horribly?  I absolutely 
=know my 35mm Tri-X gives FAR more detail than the Signal SD-9, 
=which is what I assume you meant.
=