Re: [Digital BW] Digest Number 3335
2005-08-12 by lauri.robertson@yale.edu
Hi wwodets, 'never posted before, just been a lurker, but love reading the uber-tech exchanges. I confess I'm a bit technically-challenged, so just bought an R2400 because it started sounding good enough + easy. Would you be willing to share your hard earned fine adjustment settings for EEM and VFA? Lauri
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> Message: 6 > Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 15:41:17 -0000 > From: "wwodets" <odets@...> > Subject: Re: Epson R2400 B&W Review > > Martin- > > I think there are some misconceptions or unclarities in this review. > > Mr. Tobie does not state clearly, but I gather than he is using an ICM > workflow and not the ABW mode. With the latter, there is a wide range > of adjustability with the "fine adjustment" sliders, so I would hardly > call them "canned." Having arrived at a set of fine adjustment > settings for EEM and VFA (considerably different settings for two), I > have very good control over the prints, including the shadow areas. > These settings are also used to match the prints to the screen while > viewing a Soft Proof, which is simply 30% Dot Gain, Preserve Numbers. > This does not simulate paper white, which I can now visualize fairly > well for the two papers I use. I am then, of course, printing to the > ABW driver with No Color Management in CS2. > > If his point is that Epson has not provided Soft Proof profiles for the > four standard ABW settings (Neutral, warm, etc.), I agree and it also > occurred to me that Epson might just like a trial-and-error method. > But having gone to the (considerable) trouble to set up the EEM and VFA > profiles, the workflow is surprisingly robust, simple and clean and is > producing very reliable, controlled results from screen to print. A > slight tweak of the main curves layer in the file tweaks the print just > right. > > As for the prints themselves, I am finding them spectacular. Printed > full-frame at 14 x 9 inches, I'm not sure I've ever seen 35mm > photography look this good. The experienced eyes I've shown these > prints to are generally stunned. I am looking right now at an ABW > print of a photograph taken in 1968 that has been printed, shown, and > reproduced a number of times over many years and I am astonished at > this print. It has a tonal scale, smoothness and openess in the > shadows that I wouldn't have thought possible from that negative. The > blacks on the matte papers, by the way, seem visually excellent to me > and I am comparing them to gloosy-matte-dried gelatin prints of the > same negatives. > > > > > --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "mxgo95747" > <mxgo95747@y...> wrote: > > Here is a review that I saw on the epson printer forum that may be of > interest: > > > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EPSON_Printers/message/34038 > > > > Martin G. > > > > > >