Digital BW, The Print

Bill, if that is the same image you used for our print exchange some
years back, it is truly an beautiful print. I suspect you are able to
print even better  these days.
I am familiar with DPL and it's features.

Hey, we're just three guys with some work on the walls in a lumberjack
town.
I can't imagine the show would travel, except maybe in a van... down
by the river...

Tyler

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DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Bill Morse"
<Bill.Morse@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Tyler-
> 
> Wish I could see the show- Let us know when it comes East!
> 
> I have yet to see a CCD scan that did not show significant noise in
smooth
> 3/4 tones. As far as the quality of the light from drums vs.
flatbeds, there
> is a difference and different people can prefer different things. I have
> noted various reasons why the OP might want a flatbed.
> 
> One other reason why they might want a drum is the significant
advantage IMO
> offered by Digital PhotoLab when scanning problematic negs, which
given the
> age  cited by the OP we can assume at least some are. I have a print
I show
> in my studio, of Chinese soldiers at the Longmen caves in China. The
photo,
> taken by my Grandfather in 1937, is a hand-held 4x5 taken inside the
cave,
> with only light coming from the cave entrance. Needless to say, some
of the
> negative is rather thin [G]. It is a beautiful image; the only
problem is
> that I didn't know from looking at the film that the soldiers on the
edge of
> the frame were even there! The negative looks completely blank. I even
> printed it silver several years ago, and I still didn't know it was
there.
> It was only when I scanned it that I noticed something, and only when
> scanned with DPL was I able to bring out the image. Before I bought
DPL, I
> was frankly a skeptic about the differences between it and other
scanning
> software. I have demonstrated over and over to myself its
advantages, and
> can confidently claim that I can achieve results with it possible
with no
> other scanner/software.
> 
> Of course, it's advantages are reduced when scanning perfectly exposed
> studio film, needless to say.
> 
> Bill
> 
> PS Thanks to Mark and Tyler for re-emphasizing the importance of the
scanner
> operator!