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Re: What does microbanding look like?

2015-09-21 by sanking@...

Is your question about the digital negative, or the carbon process?

If it is about the carbon process, there are several kinds of printing artifacts that can result in diagonal lines on a carbon, regardless of the type of negative.

If your question is about digital negatives, I have never seen diagonal lines on my QTR generated digital negatives. The only lines I have seen run vertically or horizontally, never on the diagonal. Diagonal lines to me would suggest either a printing artifact, or perhaps a pattern on the OHP material you are using to print your negatives.

Miicro-banding as I have seen it does not results in diagonal lines.

Sandy



BTW my problem is very narrow moderately faint diagonal lines in any smooth tone such as a clear sky. I've fiddled a bit, but so far have not been able to effect the result.

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