I'd definitely be happy with a print from a noisy ISO 1600 shot. I've printed quite a few. To me, it's quite similar to grain. It looks very nice in Bw. And, yes, I've sold some very noisy stock photos. Art directors are strange animals. Frequently, they look for something other than the usual or ordinary. Sometimes, grain or noise works very well. Paul On Nov 23, 2006, at 12:26 PM, Markus Maurer wrote:
> Hi Paul > while I agree that scanning negatives is a pain for me (doing it > now) your > latest high iso photo samples did not convince me noise wise. Could > you sell > such photos or would you be happy with a print from iso 1600? The > SR feature > of the K10D seems to be very useful on the other side as your > latest lovely > photo of grace easily showed. > greetings > Markus > > > > -----Ursprungliche Nachricht----- > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Auftrag > von > Paul Stenquist > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 23. November 2006 13:59 > An: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Betreff: Re: Printing Digital Photos > > > 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!" >> >> -- >> Thanks, >> DougF (KG4LMZ) >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
