Digital BW, The Print

By the time you buy two more lenses for your Mamiya...you could have just
bought my D1x...where the lenses were free...that is they were the same ones
I used with the F100 before...and I have infinitely more options as far as
lenses go.  The Mamiya 7II is a very nice camera...I've thought about buying
one as well...but honestly could only imagine it being more useful than my
D1x for landscape photography.

Oh...and depending on what scanner you buy...you may have spent way more
money than a D1x...just for the scanner.

I can also tell you this...you will save so much money in time, film and
processing using a digital rig...that they quickly pay for themselves if you
shoot a lot.

Robert

On 1/17/02 3:19 AM, "Alessandro Pardi" <alessandro.pardi@...>
wrote:

> 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@...]
> Sent: giovedì 17 gennaio 2002 01.33
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@...m
> 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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