Digital BW, The Print

Please don't take this the wrong way, but YOU are really the only person
here that can answer that for you. Get your ass of the sofa, shoot some B&W,
your choice but the bigger the grain , the harder your scanning life, shoot
some color like porta, or velvia, and get the stuff scanned. You will of
course be at the mercy of the scan operator so deal with it. Or better yet,
learn to scan it yourself. 

 

There are just so many issues to address that separately they don't mean
much and together is really your job. There have been some ok suggestions,
but it will come down to what do you NORAMLLY do, what are you BEST at, and
WHAT do you really want to accomplish? 

 

 We are all long past the days of handing your film off to the lab and
expecting "a" result. Printers, inks, papers, cameras, etc have changed so
often that what is written today is at a best guess tomorrow. 

 

If it were me, I'd buck up and take both digital and film. Coverage man!
Make sure you have something reliable with you that doesn't run out of juice
or hutspha (sp).

 

Eric 

 

 

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From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Paul D.
DeRocco
Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2008 5:39 PM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Digital BW] choices

 

> From: TFielder
>
> I'm heading out to Utah this weekend and to the Sierra's next month.
> I understand that film scans may likely result in better data files
> for printing. I have a Canon 20D; Nikon 35 mm film and a medium
> format film camera. My question is, should I shoot the 35 mm and get
> high resolution scans or shoot with the median format? After
> scanning, will the medium format platform out-perform the data I can
> get from the 35 mm sufficient to offset the additional effort?

For landscapes, you can also shoot multiple images with the 20D and stitch
them together, to get any resolution you want. Bit of a learning curve, but
the results are stunning. And you don't pay for all that film and
processing.

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Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco
Paul mailto:pderocco@ix. <mailto:pderocco%40ix.netcom.com> netcom.com

 



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