Re: [Digital BW] Re: Is Camera Raw enough? - ironic observation
2010-04-15 by C D Tobie
... The print is your voice, and everything before it is your unvoiced thoughts... C. David Tobie Global Product Technology Manager Digital Imaging & Home
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2010-04-15 by C D Tobie
... The print is your voice, and everything before it is your unvoiced thoughts... C. David Tobie Global Product Technology Manager Digital Imaging & Home
2010-04-15 by Ernst Dinkla
... Thin B&W negatives do not scan well on the Nikon 8000 with wet mounting in my experience. While they give an acceptable scan on the Epson V700 so I usually
2010-04-15 by Terry Ritz
... Photography came alive for me in the black and white darkroom. For a period of about 10 years, after moving into a very small house, I did not have space
2010-04-15 by tboleyyh
... OT but I have to ask.. how about color neg? Tyler
2010-04-15 by BKPhoto@aol.com
Walker- This is an interesting observation, but one that actually corresponds to a basic Zone System principle: the whole idea is to produce the least dense
2010-04-15 by tboleyyh
Amadou and I have talked about this a lot. There are those for whom the image is all, and printing is primarily a way of reproducing that. I can see how a
2010-04-15 by Walker Blackwell
vis a vis pre-visualization, I ve actually noticed that certain changes in dev and exposure actually help the raw (positive) bw scan process. This may sound
2010-04-15 by dlruckus
another here who agrees. I ve often wondered how miracles could be wrought by some I ve heard who claim to have so automated their workflow that there is no
2010-04-15 by tboleyyh
but I have to agree with Jon, though many initial large moves may be done on the monitor, the decisions that make for a print with that something extra are
2010-04-15 by Lew Schwartz
In the old, A Adams, Minor White days, previsualization meant looking at something out there in the world and imagining how one would like a final print to
2010-04-15 by piezobw
Hey Eric, You don t shoot a target like a card. You just expose film in 1/2 stops. Geoff had made some translucent white filters which fit over the lens. Aim
2010-04-15 by tboleyyh
Walker, that was cool, would never have occurred to me... just tried it on a large drum scanned 5x7 neg. Tyler
2010-04-15 by E.Neilsen
I will need to put a big wow! in here. There may be a time when an exposure to print is all that is needed to make a really nice print but the fudging around
2010-04-14 by pdesmidt tds.net
I m going to throw in with the group here. When scanning, you want to preserve as much info from the captured info as possible, and tonal manipulation in the
2010-04-14 by tboleyyh
pretty much how I do it too, and I did a LOT of testing to make sure it worked well. Accept for possibly something like Digital Photo Lab, most scanner
2010-04-14 by tboleyyh
stopping short of more complicated setups, with all your good toys there I d make carefully linearized and limited CMYK StudioPrint environments and full GCR
2010-04-14 by t.ritz@accesscomm.ca
I was a Systems Engineer with HP s largest Canadian dealer in the late 80 s. That was when HP brought Laserjet technology to the market and ended up owning the
2010-04-14 by CelluloidPhotography
I ve got a trusty old 9600 running selenium K7, and I do 99% of my b/w work on it. When size, media, or tone call for it, I switch over the the 11880. As I
2010-04-14 by shileshjani
This is what happens to me also. I may redo an image file, generally just a simple gamma adjustment, immediately after the very first print. The decisive
2010-04-14 by piezobw
Film base plus fog would be what is referred to the clear film that is at the edge of a negative that has been developed but not exposed to light. The fog is
2010-04-14 by Tom Maugham
I ve been using Epsons (1200, 1280, 2000P) and like them very much despite Epson s not-so-wonderful customer service. I ve pretty much solved that problem by
2010-04-14 by David Kachel
... Don t know what happened. Maybe the bean counters got control. I told them (HP) this week that I currently own three HP printers and have never owned any
2010-04-14 by Ross
I have question for Jon Cone regarding his setting the white point while scanning the negative. Forgive my ignorance of terminology, but what exactly do you
2010-04-14 by Tom Maugham
It s very funny. I was an IT person for many years dealing with all sorts of computer hardware and software companies and HP was the absolute best of the bunch
2010-04-14 by piezobw
probably this is obvious so don t shoot me... but in b&w printmaking, if you spend more time looking at the print than you do at the display image, you will
2010-04-14 by C D Tobie
... Engine is the same; workflow is drastically different. C. David Tobie Global Product Technology Manager Digital Imaging & Home Theater
2010-04-14 by David Kachel
... Ah! If only they were occasional ! Tried dealing with HP lately? David Kachel [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
2010-04-14 by Tom Maugham
Apology accepted at least by me! After all, photography wouldn t be as much fun without the occasional frustrations! Good luck David, I hope that your problem
2010-04-14 by David Kachel
... No, I just need ink. However, I apologize to the list for venting my frustration publicly and for my rudeness to those who were trying to be helpful. This
2010-04-14 by piezobw
When I shot my own film, I determined exposure for 50% gray and would compensate with a curve to set that. When Geoff was still teaching at Cone Editions
2010-04-14 by ausdlk
Cripes, with the dude s attitude even I had the perfect solution, I d just assume leave him hung out to dry. Dude, where the *beep* is the gratitude for the
2010-04-14 by Keith
LR or ACR. Both use the same engine and have the same tools(for the most part)so it really wouldn t make any difference.
2010-04-14 by Lew Schwartz
So you and Walker don t do any curves or adjustments except for base & dMax on the scan side? This pretty much how we evaluate iso & development times for
2010-04-14 by mrjimbo
I find that regardless of what I do when scanning with B&W that I make further adjustments to get the print to get the feel that I need .. The contrast and
2010-04-14 by Lew Schwartz
A few questions: You scan your negs as though they were positives. I ve read about this, but there seems to be opinion both ways. What s yours? So if saving
2010-04-14 by piezobw
I agree with Walker about the positive scanning of negatives - it helps eliminate the scanner manufacturer s algorithm for converting a neg to a positive. I
2010-04-14 by Walker Blackwell
For BW, I often do raw (positive) drumscans of BW negs and inverted them in ACR. Then I import into Lightroom and do most of my global adjustments in there. I
2010-04-14 by Mark Savoia
Well everyone has their workflow that works for them and they think is the simplest and easiest. Yours is just one of the many, many ways with that approach.
2010-04-14 by C D Tobie
... Lightroom would be the usual tool for this, and will allow printing as well, so that, for your uses, Photoshop might be reserved for special occasions...
2010-04-14 by Lew Schwartz
I m a bw film photographer & need to learn how to print my scanned negs digitally. In CS4, I ve discovered that if I open my scanned tiff s in Adobe Camera
2010-04-14 by Tom Maugham
AMEN! Sounds like he wants someone to wave a magic wand over his printer!!!! _____ From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
2010-04-14 by pr_roark
... That s what I m using -- MIS s retail versions. My 7800 ink order for 2010 is at http://www.paulroark.com/BW-Info/ (page 4 for the 7800). I never set up a
2010-04-14 by andy bessette
Was wondering how long this attitude would be endured. a ... With that kind of attitude, your not going to get much help. ... [Non-text portions of this
2010-04-14 by EdW
With that kind of attitude, your not going to get much help.
2010-04-14 by shileshjani
Well, good luck with that.
2010-04-14 by Tom Fielder
Clayton - Any thoughts / tests on Epson s Hot Press Bright? Thanks, Tom [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
2010-04-14 by David Kachel
... In my original post I specifically said ANY BROWN . Please stop steering this thread off course. David Kachel [Non-text portions of this message have been
2010-04-14 by shileshjani
David, I have not looked at the archives for your definition brown. However, I looked at the image posted on your website, and crude measurements using color
2010-04-14 by David Kachel
... Thanks for the suggestion. Let it suffice to say, there are no inks available to me there. David Kachel [Non-text portions of this message have been
2010-04-14 by James Irelan
probably has been mentioned, but in case not, there s Owens Valley which, last I knew, made custom ink sets. Saw some beautiful warm prints made with them,