Digital BW, The Print

Val,

I use a 10d with the original piezography/R9 plug-in,
and my common sizes for printing is 4x6 and 6x9.  With
the plug-in, I really see no need to print with
conventional methods.  Tonally and aesthetically, they
are very similar.  When enlarging, I utilized Ilford
fibre based matte VC papers - the matte papers used
for piezography give the same look in my images.

This is the greatest benefit to the 6mp cameras - no
film costs, no associated developing costs (and no
losses in developing), no scanning and therefore no
dust/scratch removal - the resulting images are sharp.
 After using the 10d/piezography, I sold my 35mm
systems and haven't looked back.

I have not used the Piezography ICC system yet - but
as the MIS UT-2 for the 1280 is available and seems to
be a more versatile solution for the epson driver,
I'll give that a shot soon to compare notes with the
plug-in for small images.


Don


> Questions:
> 
> 1.) Has anyone on this forum compared the piezo
> "small print"
> quality from 35mm/6+ mp digital versus 100 and 400
> ASA film scanned
> at 4000 dpi? At 5x7, is there noticable/significant
> quality
> differences in the resulting print?
> 
> 2.) Assuming there are folks on this list that are
> using the
> 35mm/6+ mp cameras...what is your overall
> satisfaction level with
> this tool matched with the piezo system?
> 
> Thanks...Val
> 
> 
> 
> 


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