Yeah, it's pretty hard to go back to scanning film once you've been to
the mountain.
On Nov 23, 2006, at 1:29 AM, Doug Franklin wrote:
> Howdy, folks,
>
> Well, today, I had my first real experience printing digital photos
> captured on digital. I'm using the same Epson Stylus Photo 820 that
> I've been using the last several years, and I'm still on Photoshop 7.
> My system is well enough color-calibrated that I don't think twice
> about
> whether the print will match what I saw on screen. That's largely luck
> or something, but that's another story.
>
> The story is that for irrelevant reasons, I've been called upon to
> generate 8" x 10" prints from some photos I shot with the *ist D. I
> suddenly realized a few minutes ago that this was the first set of
> prints I'd made from images captured directly to digital.
>
> In the past, I've done a lot of capturing and printing of digital
> images, but it was always in workflows mediated by film. Shoot on
> film.
> Scan to digital. Digital workflow from there to prints.
>
> I've been scanning the film at 4000 ppi, and spending untold hours of
> angst dealing with "Nyquist noise" ("grain aliasing"). I'm used to
> having to dink with the levels extensively, or resort to curves a lot
> of
> the time, nontrivial amounts of "spotting" for dust and such. I'm used
> to having to apply some Gaussian Blur before the Unsharp Mask will do
> what it ought to do.
>
> All I can say is "WOW!". Generating good to excellent prints took
> about
> 90 seconds each ... load in PS, crop, 15 seconds in levels, set image
> size for print size, print ... about 0.01 of the time I'm used to doing
> to get a decent print of a film image scanned to digital. "WOW!"
>
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> Thanks,
> DougF (KG4LMZ)
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