Digital BW, The Print

John:

Actually, I'm working with a beta version of RAW that does support 
the D70.  The quality of conversion is very good.  The problem I've 
noted does not appear when printing to color.  I do the conversion 
into 16 bit.  I'm pretty sure it's a Bayer pattern phenomenon, and/or 
a result of overaggressive use of levels and curves.

Also, my terminology in my original post was mistaken.  I should have 
said posterization/mottling of deep shadow/black areas.  The problem 
is probably best described as mottling.

Howard

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "John Vitollo" 
<jvlist@c...> wrote:
> "Howard Slavitt" <howard.slavitt@s...> wrote:
> > I recently bought a Nikon D70  BTW, my work flow is to shoot in 
> > raw, and use the Photoshop Camera Raw plug in.  I work entirely 
in 16 bit.  
> 
> Photoshop Camera Raw does not suppport the D70 at this time...it 
will open the raw file 
> but as you can see the quality is not there yet.