Digital BW, The Print

Hello All,

A few months ago I got an 8mp digicam and I now have a few images
working their way up through the system to fine print status.

Over the weekend I was looking at a bunch of prints and I suddenly
realized that the prints from digicam images had smoother high zone
areas  (such as skys and clouds) than the ones from scanned Tri-X
negs.  This is typically the kind of area where BO prints look grainy.
 Even though the grain can't actually be seen in the print, I'm
guessing that the coarseness is the result of the driver trying to
print the grain.

The digicam pics are grainless, and I'm seeing smoother high zone
areas in those prints than I'm used to seeing.  I'm going to start
paying more attention to this, and am wondering if there are any other
BO users out there who have both film and digi images who can verify
this...

Many thanks.


Regards,
Clayton


Info on black and white digital printing at    
http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm