Digital BW, The Print

'Combing' represents gaps in the tonal range. It's unlikely that's 
the problem if you shoot raw>tiff and stay in 16-bit unless you do 
some really extreme repeated tonal changes. Most of the time combing 
doesn't show, but if you have a short hard tonal shift at the bottom 
end of the scale it seems to show there first, and/or agravate an 
existing problem.

Steve Karafyllakis

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "neilsphoto" 
<neilsphoto@y...> wrote:
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Steven
> Karafyllakis" <steve@s...> wrote:
> > Hello Neil;
> > 
> > Gives us some more info:
> > 
> > What does your histogram look like? Is it combed?
> > 
> Uh I don't know.  I'd have to look.  What does it mean if it is 
combed?
> 
> > Do you shoot in raw and convert to 16 bit tiff, 8-bit tiff, JPEG;
> > 
> 
> I'm shooting RAW and everything (levels, contrast, upsize etc) is 
16
> bit.  I never take it out of that to 8 bit.  I generally save as 
TIFF.
> 
> 
> Neil