Digital BW, The Print

B&W Snapper's Delight Recipe:

> > 1) Nikon V...4000ppi, excellent negative holder, fast (THANKS JAPAN!)
> > 2) VueScan as TIFF (THANKS ED!)
> > 3) Photoshop filter> "noise"> "dust/scratch" filter, avoiding soft
> > grain(THANKS ADOBE!)
> > 4) Minimal USM (4/3.1/64 with grainy-pushed Tmax400)..avoids fringe
 
THRESHOLD 4 : RADIUS 3.1  :  AMOUNT 64

The result of trial and error, this recipe works FOR ME...
specifically with fast, sharp-grained B&W film such as HP4 TriX Tmax
400 Delta 400 (mostly rated 800 with Rodinal or Neofin, my habit for
30 years). 

FOR ME this recipe DOES preserve sharp grain and DOES NOT fringe at
80% of full frame on A4 (roughly 11X14 enlargement). I've not printed
any 12X18 with this setting but I'd expect the same results.

Color's more tricky fringe-wise. Except for the advice to keep Radius
around 3-4, I've found other people's color USM recipes useless (some
folks don't mind fringe but I do... though sometimes I accept a little).

> I'm not quite sure I understand your settings for USM....;-)
> 
> Could you give the Amount, Radius, and Threshold?  Thanks.
> 
> By the way, I agree with many of your other findings!!
> 
> Don