Digital BW, The Print

Steven,

I have been doing a bit of digital shooting with my Nikon D1x. I have not had it lond and only used it a couple of times. I am primarily a 4x5 shooter and breaking old habits is tough.

But, with that said, I will tell you that so far I am impressed. My RAW files once converted become 34 meg tif files. They are almost adequate for 11x14 prints. Some feel that they are fine, but I am anal but resolution. I use GF to rez them up to print 16x20. I have found that GF is good, but not all that it is cracked up to be. You need a perfectly sharp image to start with in order to get good results.

The coolest part of digital shooting that I have found is sticking an 87 filter in front of the lens and getting digital infrared. Digital prints made from digital files are very nice. I am getting ready to do a project whereby I shoot the same scene in 4x5 (T-Max 100), 6x6 (T-Max 100) and digital on the D1x. I will be scanning the film at 360 dpi at 16x20 and then printing the images at the same 16x20 size. What we are looking for is the ability of the digital camera to produce smooth rich tonally competent images and see how they compare with the film versions.

I think you are are going in the right direction. I will tell you that I have found that in some instances Photoshop does as good if not better at rezzing (I like that pseudo word) up the files.

Mike
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: steven0356 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 10:34 AM
  Subject: [Digital BW] Shooting Digitally


  I am planning to shoot with my Canon D-30, which will give me a
  8-bit,  
  17 meg file if I save it as a raw file in the camera.   If needed, I 
  will use Genuine Fractals to interpolate the file size up.  Does any 
  one see a problem with this approach?

  Does any one shoot digitally or are most people still shooting film? 

  How does a digital image compare to a scanned neg. in print quality?

  Is Genuine Fractals the best  way interpolate a digital file?




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