Digital BW, The Print

I've definitely experienced the same perception.  If I'm working from  
negatives, I definitely prefer working on a CRT as I feel it gives me  
a little bit better sense of the values and textures in the image.   
Also, often when I'm sharpening an image right before printing, I  
find that I have to increase the sharpening beyond what looks good on  
my CRT to get a print equivalent to my expectations.  And, if I view  
the same image on my LCD, it's even worse, making it difficult to  
guestimate the level of sharpening needed.  From what I've read, that  
is primarily due to the fact that the image your viewing is set to 72  
ppi, whereas if you're printing high res output, your actual  
resolution is at least 4 times that.  And, since LCDs generally are  
more "crisp," this effect is exaggerated.  But, since it seems that  
prosumer CRTs are generally disappearing from the market, maybe it's  
just something we'll have to get used to.

Eric
www.ericashworth.net



On Aug 14, 2005, at 3:34 PM, Scott McLoughlin wrote:

> Since this is a B&W forum, do other forum members find that grain in
> scanned B&W images seems accenctuated by LCD monitors, and not so
> by CRT monitors?   Or am I seeing things?  Or is it a quality of  
> LCD monitor
> issue or what?
>
> I'm not in love with the bulk of my aging Dell Trinitron, but this  
> issue
> has
> bothered me in the past.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Scott