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RE: [Digital BW] From the horses mouth.

2002-01-29 by Austin Franklin

> Hi Austin, the digital back of which I speak are the 4x5 scanning backs
> on a Sinar View Camera, and the test was conducted by Design Graphics
> Magazine, using a very detailed oil painting as the subject. The blowups
> clearly showed the superiority of the digital scan over film. No doubt
> about it at all. So said the article. and anyone with normal vision
> could easily see the difference in quality.

Hi Jerry,

What's interesting about that is...how did they get the film image into the
magazine?  Given that you really didn't see a REAL output print from a
darkroom for the print, and then a lightjet print of the digital, you really
didn't have a good comparison, IMO.  I'd really have to know how they did
what they did to comment further.  I assure you, I can easily show the exact
opposite is true!

Austin

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