Digital BW, The Print

In a message dated 6/18/2003 4:10:58 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com writes:

> Message: 7
>   Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 08:26:11 +0200
>   From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@...>
> Subject: Re: Taking the plunge
> 
> Claude writes:
> 
> >The camera did get hot in my hands and
> >I kept cycling through cards and battery
> >recharges. All Jepegs.
> 
> If the camera was that hot, I'd expect that you'd have an increasing problem
> with thermal noise, especially in low light.  Did you?

I'm sure it had some effect, but I was already pushing up the noise at ISO 
800 to start with. Capturing the moment was more important than technical 
perfection for that application.

> 
> >The clients were sorting through them on several
> >workstations. This type of work absolutely demanded
> >digital capture.
> 
> It sounds well suited to digital.  How did they do it before digital cameras
> existed?


I don't know because I never did it any other way before nor would I have 
ever thought of attempting it.

> 
> >Also, picture packages were printed on dye sub printers.
> 
> Dye subs look just like photo prints if they are from a decent printer.  My
> ALPS printer produced beautiful results (better than any ink-jet), but it
> was so difficult to get it to work with my PC and to get it to even load
> paper correctly that I eventually gave up.


don't about Alps. I just bought a bunch (over time) of Kodak 8650's. Sony's 
eventually got faster, better and a little cheaper, but I was too far invested.

> 
> >This job would have been impossible (for
> >me) without digital capture.
> 
> So how was it done before?  Or was it simply not done at all?


I don't think it was being done at all (talking to the parents). I always 
thought replacing film with digital capture (except for catalog work on 3-pop 
cameras) in 1996 was not a good move. Replacing Polaroid applications with 
something better, was a good move. The client gets a better product and the 
photographer can sell more than one good print.

> 
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