Digital BW, The Print

I really don't get it. I am looking at my results from the Minolta scanner
in B&W from agfa 100  fb4 hp5. There is no discernable grain on my 10x8's.
Maybe it is that most are off 6x7 negs but even my 35mm's look good. I
should add I use the Piezo inkset and the Cone driver overrides the Epson
giving me beautiful continuous tones. How to distinguish grain from the the
dot pattern the printer lays down. Excuse me if it is a stupid question. I
am looking at a 35mm print under a loupe and really there is almost a
complete absence of grain!

Adam
  -----Original Message-----
  From: Bernie Ess [mailto:albatros.bee@...]
  Sent: 04 December 2001 17:00
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
  Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: review of the Minolti multi pro


  ----- Original Message -----
  From: "culturalvisions" <frank@...>

  > I have two major complaints about scans of my b&w and color
  > negs.
  >
  > 1.  They look grainier than silver or color chemical prints of the
  > same.  GEM helps improve this at the cost of very long scan
  > times.  I've read that this grainy appearance is called "grain
  > aliasing" and is aparent in most prosumer scanners.

  Frank,
  there has been a complaint about the grain problem - think it was on the
  film scanners list - from a guy who is using the Polaroid 120 - same
problem
  apparently. I see 2 ways to get around this:
  - buy a more expensive scanner, maybe the Imacon photo (too much for me)
  - take care to shoot only very fine grain film (slower than 100) and be
  careful to use chemicals that don´t emphathize the grain.

  I had made a scan of a photo I   thought was good by a service, but was
  dissappointed by the amount of very visible grain in the scan. Don´t know
  what scanner they use, but the problem seems to be there.

  But as I shoot mainly b&w, this problem leaves me worried, although others
  don´t consider it as bad.

  Greetings Bernhard




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