Digital BW, The Print

I shoot mostly with my D100 these days, and interestingly enough, I
find that the larger the digital inkjet print, the better it looks to
me.  I find that for smaller print sizes, the dither interferes a little
with the details, which you are trying to see, so you also look more
closely at it.  But in the larger sizes, the details print large enough
to not fight with the dither pattern.  The dither does not change at all
non matter the print size, so it's not like grain which becomes more
apparent as the enlargement gets bigger.  In fact, to my film trained
eyes and mind, I'm continuously amazed by larger inkjet prints because I
still expect larger prints to have grain, which simply isn't there.
     Now, for my color wedding work, I have my lab print all sizes on
their Fuji Pictrography machine and there is no dither or pattern at
all.  It's wonderful and as good as film for all sizes at least up to
12"x18".

Thanks,
Ed
http://lightandsilver.com 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul D. DeRocco [mailto:pderocco@...] 
> Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 11:06 PM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [Digital BW] "Small" Work
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> For 5x7 prints, the sharpness and noise level is probably 
> limited by the
> inkjet dither. Six megapixels is more than enough. At 8x10, 
> you might be
> able to notice a tiny reduction in sharpness, if you really 
> look for it, but
> you can certainly find out whether it's a problem by reducing 
> one of your
> existing images to 2048x3072 and printing it. As to noise, the latest
> digicams are excellent.
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