Digital BW, The Print

Martin,

I haven't had a problem working down as low as 4 MB.  I suspect it 
won't matter since it's scalable technology you're dealing with.  Maybe 
2 pixels by 2 pixels is going to give you trouble- ha.  Just don't do 
anything but curves and levels, certainly no layers that are not 
adjustment layers, or it will cause problems res'ing back up.

I'm still awaiting the second round of negs from A&I.  I think they are 
busting their butts to get a good result here, I know Chip has 
rescanned a couple of times to try to obtain a higher level of 
sharpness.  He called yesterday and said he's off to get married and 
honeymoon, but the Lightjet operator Jim is on it and will call.  
Hopefully next week I'll have some results, but I'm going to be at 
Siggraph so I won't make any promises.  Rest assured we will have 
something soon, however, and the list will be the first to know.

Phil
http://philbard.com



> Phil,
> 
> That's a really great idea and one, which would really save me a lot 
> o waiting time. I have been scanning my 6x7 negs to get 550MB, 48-bit 
> RGB files. I do some adjustments and then drop to 24-bit RGB which 
> gives me about a 200-250 MB file and I would like to adjust in RGB 
> space as long as possible but even with 1.5GB of RAM and a 1.2 GHz 
> CPU this still gets slow. The sample down, work, sample up should get 
> me working at a file size where the system will really move.
> 
> Is there any limit on how small you go down and do you then have to 
> do any tweaking once you are back to the original with the ressed up 
> layers?
>