Digital BW, The Print

Jerry,

Like I said, I am new to digital shooting. Actually, I have not owned a 35mm camera in a couple of years.  I had no idea that digital camera images needed that much sharpening. How much do you sharpen. I think that I was doing it much the way I do it with film scans. As little as possible or none at all.

Infrared is cool. You shoot it with the 87 filter and then once downloaded you convert to grayscale with channel mixer just like a color scan to grayscale. You can also set the camera to B/W mode and then the infrared previews look incredible and not red.

From what I read the D30 will do it also.

I bought an 4x4 87 polyester filter from Lee along with a frame. It fits my Lee filter holder.

Mike
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jerry Olson 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 8:52 PM
  Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Shooting Digitally



  > 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. 

  ALMOST good enough?!!! People are printing spectacular 13x19 images from
  this camera AND the Canon D-30!

  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.

  I have a closeup of my cat's face that is 13x19 and is every bit as
  sharp as scanned velvia film!

  You MUST sharpen ALL digital images, and those taken with under $5000
  need a LOT of sharpening. They will take it with no problems. How do you
  sharpen your images?

  > The coolest part of digital shooting that I have found is sticking an 87 filter in front of the lens and getting digital infrared. 

  That sounds WONDERFUL! A grainless Infrared photograph! Does this work
  on All digital cameras? Or only those that focus their flash with
  infrared light?

  Would the Canon D30 do it? 

  How does that work? wouldn't you just get a very red photo? 

  Jerry


  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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