Digital BW, The Print

Paul,

This completely confirms what Ctein says in his new book on photo restoration. He uses the scanner as one of his strongest tools for pulling info out of a print and details a lot of nice moves done by scanning BW prints in manipulating them in the color domains. If you haven't seen it, take a look, you may enjoy it.  "Digital Restoration From Start to Finish: How to repair old and damaged photographs"

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From: Paul Roark <paul.roark@...>
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 10:40:20 AM
Subject: RE: [Digital BW] Digitizing Prints









  


    
            In this museum project I'm working on, I usually don't have the original

negative.  So, I'm stuck with old, beat-up prints.  I've been amazed at how

much information I can pull off some of those old prints.  Often the paper

texture limits the enlargement, but sometimes even it conveys an interesting

look -- not unlike watercolor paper we use.  If I'm lucky enough to have a

contact print, taking the final to 18 x 24 still results in a print that can

be very sharp -- at least in the center, which is about the only place some

of the old lenses performed well.  I use my Epson flatbed scanner at up to

800 ppi for the best prints.  The only time I've resorted to my 8 MP Canon

is for a poster re-production that was too large to scan (and not worth the

cost of a service bureau scanning-back job).  For the poster, which was a

water-color original, I used the Canon 45 TS lens to make a 14 MP image.



Paul

www.PaulRoark. com 





    
  

    
    




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