It all depends on the quality of the original, the skill of the person making the prints/scans, and the quality of the printer and scanner.
There is no absolute answer here, though personally my best results are from scanned medium format transparencies. I don't have a 20+ MP camera to compare, though, so it's not a fair fight -- $3000 worth of camera/lens and $4000 worth of scanner should trounce $1000 worth of camera/lens every time. -Aaron -----Original Message----- From: graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subj: Re: Workflow Date: Tue Mar 28, 2006 8:27 pm Size: 1K To: [email protected] Year before last Cotty brought a batch of photos to GFM with the challenge to tell which were shot with film and which were shot digitally. To make it harder the film images were scanned and printed digitally so they were all digital prints. Now most of the folks I saw look at them could tell mostly which were which. So much for the idea you can't tell the difference. And BTW all web images are small and digital it would be hard to see the difference in them. graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com http://webpages.charter.net/graywolf "Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof" ----------------------------------- Don Williams wrote: > Aaron Reynolds wrote: > >> >> On Mar 28, 2006, at 8:19 AM, Paul Stenquist wrote: >> >>> Actually, Aaron gets it completely. As do the others who've done >>> enough darkroom work to realize that , like processing pics on the >>> computer, it's just work. Both can be rewarding, both can be >>> difficult and tedious. >> >> >> Yes, thank you. >> >> -Aaron >> >> >> > If you think digital photography and Photoshop manipulation is not 'art' > take a look at the gallery of crystal 'prints' I offer on my website. > I've had some very flattering messages about them; one from a > professional photographer (he uses both film and digital) who really > knows what he's doing. He suggested some of the images resemble Miro > paintings. Personally I think most are 'run-of-the-mill' -- but one or > two are interesting. There are about half a dozen that were made on film > amongst them -- I dare anyone to say which. > > Don >
