Digital BW, The Print

I agree with John. My interest is in seeing how members of this forum 
produce great prints with their systems, rather than seeing which 
printer produces the best stepwedge.
Evan

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "john dean" 
<deanwork2003@...> wrote:
>
> He's right. When you create a histogram of that Tiff it really isn't
> smooth at all. We need a 16 bit file from a good scan that hasn't 
been
> compressed if possible.
> 
> It's up to Amadou, he's in charge, but I still think a drum scan from
> a real world photograph from a large format black and white neg of a
> full range subject with a decent amount of total black would be best.
> Second  best would be a medium or large format direct digtal capture
> from a really good back. I don't have the perfect negative or I would
> offer to supply it.
> 
> John
>