Digital BW, The Print

Richard--

I've had some of the same problems (or at least i might describe it as 
posterization). I shoot film and scan on a Nikon ls8000, and print with a 
1200 and VM ink. My most recent prints have been better. My theory is 
that it's a combo of:

-dot size of the 1200
-getting all the alignments right
-perfect film/perfect scans do better
-and of course, alignment of the planets.

I've been thinking of moving to a 1270 or 1280 to see if that fixes my 
problems. 

I also theorize that we don't hear much about this problem b/c relatively 
few on this list shoot (caucasian) people much.

I'd be curious to hear other theories.

matt

> Hi,
> I've found with portraits that I am often having difficulty getting smooth gradations in caucasian skin tones without posterization - and I've been using a Canon G5 camera in the last couple of days and have just found that the same tone of grey in the overcast sky - about the tone of a grey card - has attracted noise, but the rest of the photo has not. This seemed an odd coincidence. I suspect it is just a coincidence, but it seemed interesting.

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Matt Haber
dance, portrait and fashion photography
http://www.matthaber.com