Digital BW, The Print

In a message dated 11/23/2004 10:11:41 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com writes:


> you can actually get up into Zones XIII or even XIV and
> still see some tonal separation in the negative) and that textire and detail
> can be brought out in the print without minus development when you scan and
> print digitally. So why are the highlights "virtually undefined" in this
> workflow?
> 

ALL negative films, with normal develpment contain far more information than 
any paper can print without tonal compression. It's up to us to decide what 
gets printed by way of tonal compression.

Claude


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