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grain was:[Digital BW] Re: Black only printing. -> digital capture vs film

2003-11-27 by Mark Hahn

I can't get this, even going to 400% and all enlargerments.  Don't 
know... 

I don't generally do this, only there were a few personal 
snapshot/portraits which were blurry and noisy and the effect let me 
turn out a few mantle photos...

mark

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "scrber" 
<stephen.bate@m...> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > PS  ...and just tried it again and cannot make it tile the grain 
> > pattern no matter what I do.
> 
> Odd....
> I was just looking at a 10x15 Scala scan that I added a fair amount 
> of grain to (about 6 I seem to remember) in order to really push 
the 
> look.  I can see patination.
> I agree with smaller amounts it is totally indestinguishable.  I am 
> interested in your results though.  I almost gave up on this ages 
ago.
> Can you see anything on print (or screen) with high levels?
> 
> 
> > 
> > PSS ...since almost everything in this world is approximately 
> > Gaussian you would expect film grain to be somewhat Gaussian as 
> well.
> >

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