Digital BW, The Print

Clark Thomas told me about this software for digital cameras. I 
don't know that much about it; I assume it's some type of 
"acquiring" software for the D1, D1x, and D30.

I hesitate to post this question on this list because it might 
devolve into another long, technical thread, which might even be 
considered off-topic for BW. 

But at least for me, it's very pertinent. I think for several reasons -- 
tightening budgets of clients, endless dust-spotting of scans 
from film, and time of turnaround -- I'm for the first time 
considering some type of digital camera for high-quality BW 
work. The one I'm serious about is the Nikon D1x.

I guess my main question, and the only one that really matters is 
-- is it possible to get a quality 16x20 image from an 18meg RGB 
file? This software, Bibble, seems to do some internal 
sharpening, and maybe coupled with something like Genuine 
Fractals, maybe, possibly, hopefully, someone could end up with 
a high-quality, tight file?

If anyone has direct experience with something like this, in the 
real world, rather than in theory, I'd love some feedback. Also, 
here's the URL for Bibble:
http://www.bibblelabs.com/

and for Genuine Fractals:
http://www.lizardtech.com/products/genuine_fractals.html

Mark, I don't have specific answers to your questions. But I'm just 
wondering why you wouldn't consider a back instead. I'm assuming you 
could use it with your plungercam or any other experiments you are 
doing in medium format. I use goofball plastic lenses on my RZ and 
4x5's, and if I want to continue those effects optcally instead of 
faking them in Photoshop I always thought I'd have to the back route 
instead of a whole digital camera. Have you looked into that?
Tyler

It changed my life!  Images shot in raw on my D1 translated using MacBibble
are a whole different beast from Jpegs captured using the same camera.  I
highly recommend it...in fact I wish they made a scanner front end...it
blows away all the scanning software that I've used in the past.

Robert

On 10/5/01 9:25 PM, "Mark Tucker" <mark@...> wrote:

> Clark Thomas told me about this software for digital cameras. I
> don't know that much about it; I assume it's some type of
> "acquiring" software for the D1, D1x, and D30.
> 
> I hesitate to post this question on this list because it might
> devolve into another long, technical thread, which might even be
> considered off-topic for BW.
> 
> But at least for me, it's very pertinent. I think for several reasons --
> tightening budgets of clients, endless dust-spotting of scans
> from film, and time of turnaround -- I'm for the first time
> considering some type of digital camera for high-quality BW
> work. The one I'm serious about is the Nikon D1x.
> 
> I guess my main question, and the only one that really matters is
> -- is it possible to get a quality 16x20 image from an 18meg RGB
> file? This software, Bibble, seems to do some internal
> sharpening, and maybe coupled with something like Genuine
> Fractals, maybe, possibly, hopefully, someone could end up with
> a high-quality, tight file?
> 
> If anyone has direct experience with something like this, in the
> real world, rather than in theory, I'd love some feedback. Also,
> here's the URL for Bibble:
> http://www.bibblelabs.com/
> 
> and for Genuine Fractals:
> http://www.lizardtech.com/products/genuine_fractals.html
> 
> 
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