Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "mkravit" 
<michael.kravit@w...> wrote:
> Larry,
> 
> I think the point is...I am spoiled with film. I shoot T-Max 100 
4x5 
> and scan it on  Howtek D4000 drum scanner up to 4000 dpi. I find 
> myself comparing the images from my Nikon D1x and this is not 
really 
> fair.
> 
> BTW, I have used Pyro for over 6 years and find that it has no 
great 
> advantage with T-Max 100 as the staining is minimal. Now soup it 
with 
> Tri-X and you have a whole different puppy.
> 
> Mike

> Mike, i use it(pyro) with illford hp5. and kodak highspeed infra 
red.works great with both films. when scanning it i scan in rgb. i 
can go to channel mixer in photoshop  and tweek the tonal range quite 
well, then convert to greyscale. these negs are quite smooth. i still 
wonder about that 4000 dpi scan. i think it would crash my system.
larry 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "riskdr8138" 
> <L.PIRRONE@A...> wrote:
> > --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Derek Clarke 
> <derek_c@c...> 
> > wrote:
> > > What dpi did you scan that 4x5 at?
> > > 
> > > On Friday 18 Jan 2002 12:44 am, Michael Kravit wrote:
> > > > Jerry,
> > > >
> > > > I think tha visually you are seeing an image that looks like 
> > film, but in
> > > > reality the camera would need to approach 16 megapixels to 
> > resolve the
> > > > finest films today.
> > > >
> > > > For example, I recently shot an image in a Charleston 
Cemetary 
> on 
> > 4x5 T-Max
> > > > 100. In the distance, oh perhaps 2 miles away is what looks 
> like 
> > a 6 story
> > > > office building. I can zoom in on my scan and see a guy 
sitting 
> > at his desk
> > > > on the top floor.
> > 
> > can i chime in here. i have been using 4x5 for all of my 
photograph 
> > for about 10 years. when i went digital for printing (epson 1200, 
> mis 
> > cfs system) i aquired a heidleberg saphir ultra ii. i scan my 4x5 
> negs
> > at 1200 dpi. this gives me a 300 dpi output on at a 16x20 print 
> size. 
> > of course i can only print 13x19. my prints are VERY sharp. the 
> > heidleberg flatbed is supperb. of course you could not use it for
> > 35mm, but i have made nice prints to 12x17 from 2 1/4 negs using 
> > genuine fractiles. 
> > 
> > i shoot large format conventional black and white and infrared. i 
> > develop these negs 9including the infrared in PMK which is a 
> staining 
> > developer. 
> > 
> > larry pirrone
> > 
> >  D30 or D1x.
> > > >
> > > > Mike