Digital BW, The Print

> From: sceptre12345 [mailto:am1000@...]
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> I've been asking myself if I should go ahead with a digital camera
> for b&w prints. Up to now, I've not had much success with b&w prints
> from digital camera. I get posterisation and the skin texture in
> portraits are not what I looking for.

What leads you to believe that the posterization is caused by the fact that
it comes from a digital camera? There are two things that prevent
posterization: more bit depth, and more noise. The Canon 10D is quiet enough
at low ISO that you may get posterization in B&W mode if you do 8-bit
processing, but that would be true of any low-noise image, even if scanned
from film. I haven't seen any posterization printing B&W from my 10D, but I
do everything in 16-bit in PS CS.

As to skin texture, I don't know--that's purely subjective.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
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