Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Mark Savoia
<mark@...> wrote:
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> Observation, not criticism.
>
> Who thought this was going to turn out like this? What is going to
> happen if we all get in the same room? I think we need to check the
> attitudes and realize that there are all levels of printers (people)
> in this group and we will do the best job we can by what is given to
> us. This is after all what we do everyday, ....if it's a bad scan
> supplied, bad digital capture, etc. that is out of our control.
>
> Let's keep it fun.
> :)
> Mark
>
> On Oct 4, 2006, at 1:09 PM, wolarsky wrote:
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> > 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
> >>
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