Re: PP: Digital Grain

[Paul Stenquist]

I can't provide much help. I don't know how they shoot Playboy 
centerfolds these days, but I can try to find out. I suspect they use 
large format digital. I know they did shoot huge chromes in the past. I 
don't think they contact printed them. I believe they made their color 
separations from the transparencies just as other publications did. A 
print would be useless for offset printing. Although they probably  
made some for display and portfolios.
Paul
On Jan 24, 2005, at 1:23 AM, William Robb wrote:

----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Studdert"
Subject: Re: PP: Digital Grain

I'd love to be proven wrong but I suspect the prints you speak of 
though
resolute would look pretty bad up against prints produced using 
studio MF
digital work-flows these days.
Paul?
Can you help us out here?
I do wonder how much of the errors you speak of would actually be 
measurable by any means short of a microdensitometer.

For all that, there is a lushness to large film contact prints that I 
find hard to describe in words, but once you see it, you no longer 
need the explanation.

William Robb