Digital BW, The Print

Well... but that's what it was. It was testing the print quality. If
you introduce "artistic feel", objectivity is lost. I understand your
point but I don't think it can apply here. The testes were done in a
"measurable" way. If you need to interpret its artistic values, it
becomes really hard to be objective.

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MH> This seems way too simplistic to me because it completely ignores the
MH> aspect of "artistic feel" in the resulting prints.  A target may be
MH> good for showing the dither pattern, general accuracy of tonal output
MH> for a given gradient, but actual photos are much more complex and 
MH> have infinitely variable gradiations etc. not tested in this 
MH> shootout.  I'm not arguing against the findings since I've never used
MH> the Piezography system, and I don't doubt that it is very good, but
MH> don't have much faith this being the acid test for b&w print quality.

MH> mark