Digital BW, The Print

To Cort's point, I am most concerned with how the image looks when 
displayed.  To me, that means somewhat close inspection with the 
naked eye.  For my landscapes I have been pleased with B&W 6x7 
scanned at 4000 dpi and printed at 11x14 with the Piezo plug-in.  I 
can notice a difference if I substitute 35mm (for the 6x7) at the 
11x14 print size, and even a bit at 8x10.

But my smaller scale B&W work printed at 5x7 meets my personal 
standard and it appears from all the posts that I would probably be 
satisfied with the output from the 6+mp dslrs for this stuff.

So I will probably evolve to 2 formats for B&W:  6x7 film for 
landscape work and 35mm digital for most everything else.  I may 
wait for the Nikon D70 before taking the plunge, although the 
reports on the Fuji S2 are tempting (but twice the price!).

Again, I would like to thank the many that posted on this.  I've 
gotten a lot of great input...Val



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Cort Anderson 
<stats@t...> wrote:
> On Monday, December 29, 2003, at 10:49  PM, David Sinai wrote:
> 
> > 2) Lens quality, optics, and overall image quality from the 
Medium
> > Format is better than the 6 MP digital.  Can anyone disagree?
> 
> Yes, everyone does different types of photography and what may be 
> unacceptable for one person may be great for another, the only way 
you 
> are going to decide is to try both yourself. The other thing is 
that 
> there are some people out there that will never be happy with 
digital, 
> they will want to put a 100x lupe on 40x50 prints from a 1mp 
camera so 
> that they can point out how inferior it is.
> 
> Borrow or rent both cameras and shoot like you normally would and 
make 
> prints from both then hang them on the wall and ask people to pick 
> which is best or which is digital, chances are most people will 
not be 
> able to tell the difference. I am not sure why there is such an 
> obsession to put high powered lupes on large prints to determine 
> quality, prints should be judged the way they are normally viewed 
by 
> the people buying them, not a bunch of super critical 
photographers 
> with high powered lupes.
> 
> Cort
> 
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