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RE: [Digital BW] Digital, film, scanning comparisons

2003-05-24 by Austin Franklin

Alan,

> I tried and tried to get some sort of acceptable B&W prints from D30 image
> files that I felt would benefit from a grayscale presentation. I used
> Channel Mixer, I used the B&W conversion tools available via
> Pixel Genius's
> Photokit, I tried the B&W Pro conversion tool from Imaging
> Factory, I tried
> Fred Miranda's conversion actions, etc. Not one sang for me.

Well, Jerry (God bless his soul!) pretty much used the D-30 and D-60
exclusively as far as I know, and his images were stupendous...AND...they
were B&W:

http://www.westernechoes.com/

So, I'm not quite sure why you weren't getting prints that "sing", but the
ones I saw from Jerry very much so did.

Regards,

Austin

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