Digital BW, The Print

I would consider your camera options first.  With different 
film/developer combinations you can probably make up most of the 
difference, or at least get what you want out of either, and as 
someone said, the lens will play in big time.  But you have to live 
with your camera choice for all the photos you take.  If you fall in 
love with one of the 645 cameras you will be able to make it work for 
you, if you fall in love with a 6x7 then get that.  Going 6x6 puts 
you in the middle and also gets you out of having to flip the camera 
for portrait or landscape format if you allow cropping... not all 
medium format cameras shoot *that* comfortably in portrait mode).  If 
you don't care, then just assume bigger is better.

mark

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "randyrancier" 
<randyrancier@y...> wrote:
> No kidding about the responses.  All I want to be able to do is get 
> really nice, up to 16x20 prints, color and B&W; most of my work 
will 
> be 11x14 or smaller.  I'm not expecting contact print quality, but 
I 
> do have a critical eye for sharpness and grain.  I don't think 
> sharpness will be a problem with either the 6x4.5 or 6x7 neg size, 
> but at what point will grain become perceptable with the new 
> negative materials and the tools available with Photoshop?  I'm 
sure 
> it depends to some degree on the film used and possibly choice of 
> scanner.
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> Randy
>  
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, J Vee 
> <j.vee@g...> wrote:
> > Just one end of the spectrum of responses I expect you will get.  
> I have
> > kind of gone down the road you are exploring.  Found digital 
> cameras great
> > for certain things but not for fine arts photography (?yet).  
> Settled on the
> > 3/4 gig file from (my) drum scanner from 4X5 and 1 3/4 gig file 
> from 11 X
> > 14.  Just no substitute for the look and ³feel² of the work from 
> this
> > source, no matter what I do in Photoshop.  This is true even with 
> a print as
> > small as 11 X 14, of course even more so with a 48 X 65 mural 
> print.
> > 
> > On 2/12/04 1:26 PM, "randyrancier" <randyrancier@y...> wrote:
> > 
> > > I used to be primarily a large format photographer 4x5 & 5x7, as
> > > well as doing a fair amount of 35mm B&W. I worked in silver and
> > > palladium print making. I am fairly new to digital photography 
> and
> > > up to this point have only worked with digital images from my 3
> > > megapixel camera; I've really enjoyed it, and it has gotten me 
> back
> > > into photography.  The digital darkroom is much more convienient
> > > than a wet darkroom, hallelujah!
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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