Digital BW, The Print

One of the very interesting developments in digital raw workflow
centers around the ability to shoot 3 bracketed frames - over, under,
and in the middle, drop them into PS CS2 with instant registration and
combine them instantly as one very smooth entity. It's a  major
improvement in dynamic range over the one frame 35mm camera or any ccd
scanner, certainly including Imacon. That three frame registration can
happen in about the time it would take to power up your scanner much
less have your film processed. However we aren't talking people photo
though, its got to be static right now.

john



> smaller pictures and stitch them together. That way, you retain the
> advantages of the quick turnaround, yet can still get gargantuan
images with
> loads of detail. Modern stitching software, like PTGui, has gotten
really
> good, and with some practice you can get really quick at it.
Shooting a 4x4
> array can realistically give you at least the equivalent of a 2x2 sized
> sensor, maybe even 3x3, after you factor out the overlap, and the
> interpolation filtering. So even a cheap eight megapixel camera like
a Rebel
> XT should give you more than enough resolution.
> 
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> Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
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