Digital BW, The Print

It changed my life!  Images shot in raw on my D1 translated using MacBibble
are a whole different beast from Jpegs captured using the same camera.  I
highly recommend it...in fact I wish they made a scanner front end...it
blows away all the scanning software that I've used in the past.

Robert

On 10/5/01 9:25 PM, "Mark Tucker" <mark@...> wrote:

> Clark Thomas told me about this software for digital cameras. I
> don't know that much about it; I assume it's some type of
> "acquiring" software for the D1, D1x, and D30.
> 
> I hesitate to post this question on this list because it might
> devolve into another long, technical thread, which might even be
> considered off-topic for BW.
> 
> But at least for me, it's very pertinent. I think for several reasons --
> tightening budgets of clients, endless dust-spotting of scans
> from film, and time of turnaround -- I'm for the first time
> considering some type of digital camera for high-quality BW
> work. The one I'm serious about is the Nikon D1x.
> 
> I guess my main question, and the only one that really matters is
> -- is it possible to get a quality 16x20 image from an 18meg RGB
> file? This software, Bibble, seems to do some internal
> sharpening, and maybe coupled with something like Genuine
> Fractals, maybe, possibly, hopefully, someone could end up with
> a high-quality, tight file?
> 
> If anyone has direct experience with something like this, in the
> real world, rather than in theory, I'd love some feedback. Also,
> here's the URL for Bibble:
> http://www.bibblelabs.com/
> 
> and for Genuine Fractals:
> http://www.lizardtech.com/products/genuine_fractals.html
> 
> 
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