Digital BW, The Print

My two cents- it's really not critically important that I understand the
principles in creating b&w images from digital color in order to create art.

Capp




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 From: Austin Franklin [mailto:darkroom@...]
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 2:32 PM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Digital BW] Digital, film, scanning comparisons




  > > That's not relevant to the discussion.
  >
  > Of _course_ it is relevant.  The whole purpose of this list is to
discuss
  > black and white printing.  Black and white prints normally come from
black
  > and white images, and the latter are often produced with black and white
  > film and filters.  It's about as relevant as anything can get.

  No, Anthony.  The premise what that you can turn scanned color film data
  into a visually indistinguishable image (tonal wise) from that of the same
  image taken with Tri-X and scanned, period.  It was not about the use of
  filters.  That is another discussion.  FEW people actually use filters
  compared to the number that don't.  And as I said, it is NOT relevant to
my
  premise, and the reason you want to make it relevant is because you
somehow
  believe it mitigates the correctness of my statement, and it does not.

  > This entire discussion, in fact, is far more important than you seem to
  > realize,

  Being that I've been in the digital imaging business for over 25 years,
any
  discussion on digital imaging is very important to me.

  > because it has some pretty serious implications for
  > those trying to
  > reproduce one type of B&W print from something other than one type of
B&W
  > image.

  Yes, and that's why it's done all the time, whether you concur or not.

  > In particular, it is critically important that anyone shooting
  > color--such as digital color--and trying to get B&W from it
  > understand these
  > principles, so that he or she can understand why certain results can be
  > produced, whereas others cannot.

  That's very true...but my premise is still correct.

  > > Hum.  I see it done all the time.
  >
  > No, you see approximations.

  Everything is an approximation.

  Austin


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