Digital BW, The Print

Michael,
 
I've just ordered a Mamiya 7 II with 65mm, my first go at medium format, and
am therefore very curious about your project of comparing medium and large
format scans to the current state of the art in digital (the only thing I
know is that a D1x is WAY more expensive than a MF body and scanner). Please
share your results with us.
 
Thanks,
Alessandro Pardi

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Kravit [mailto:michael.kravit@worldnet.att.net]
Sent: giovedì 17 gennaio 2002 01.33
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Shooting Digitally


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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