Digital BW, The Print

35mm negs with SS4000 at 4000. My statement about the softness of 
scans is not based so much on my own experience, however, as what 
I've read in books, the Web, etc.

Chris

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Bill Morse <willym@b...> 
wrote:
> Hi Chris-
> 
> What are you scanning with? At what resolution?
> 
> Bill
> 
> on 12/5/01 12:13 PM, tzinzunzan2000 wrote:
> 
> According to my understanding, scanned images are by their nature
> somewhat soft and that some degree of sharpening is usually required
> and is done as a matter of course. Are you saying that at no point 
in
> your process do you sharpen the image? Also, I acknowledge that
> certain images, are just fine as soft.
> 
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Bill Morse <willym@b...>
> wrote:
> > Austin, I don't normally sharpen either, I just scan at the 
highest
> > resolution I can get, then wait while the file opens in PS [g].
> Sharpening
> > can, however, be an expressive tool- e.g.. Martin's image in the
> photo
> > exchange, where the background is left soft and somewhat grainy,
> while the
> > stone chimney is sharp, sharp, sharp.  Somehow the combination 
puts
> you (or
> > at least me) into the scene.
> > 
> > Otherwise sharpening is just trying to get lo-res to look like an
> 8x10
> > contact print- why bother!
> > 
> > Bill
> > 
> > on 12/5/01 9:46 AM, Austin Franklin wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Bill,
> > 
> > You may very well be right, since sharpening certainly can change
> tonal
> > values!
> > 
> > I do NOT sharpen, nor do I advocate it...but I do understand some
> people
> > believe they need it...and I am sure they really do (well, I guess
> I'm sure
> > they do for what they have, but I believe there is some problem in
> their
> > process that necessitates this...), but I'm not clear if it's 
their
> scanner,
> > camera, lense, film, developing or what...that necessitates the
> need for
> > sharpening.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Austin
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> 
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