Digital BW, The Print

Are you shooting the digital camera as though you have slide film when you
judge exposure? I do, by setting the display to warn when highlights that
are out of range. This is very different than I would expose most BW (or
color) negative films. I think the result is more highlight detail and
smoother total areas in the brightest regions. Since BO printing has fewer
values between black and paper white than "quadtone" printing, I would think
that the difference would be more noticeable.

Wendel

> 
> 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