Digital BW, The Print

> From: bobphoto [mailto:bobphoto@...]
>
> I have come to the conclusion that when making a test print you
> have to take a section of an image and print it full size rather
> than re-sizing the whole image to make a small print.  This is
> the same as you would do in the darkroom assuming you did not
> want to compensate for enlarger height change.  My full image
> small test print comes out much darker than the final full size
> print.  A section of the full size image prints the same as the
> final ful size print.  I am using MIS-VM in an 1160 with Paul
> Roark's curves.
>
> Is this correct?

That sounds fishy to me. There may be some psychological effect at work, but
resizing an image shouldn't change the average brightness of it when
printed.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
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