Dear Tariq, You should explain to your client that the file is a first generation original and so contains more detail than an equivalent 6/7. With film, you shoot onto film, develop in chemistry , then scan, two extra stages added to the process which as you rightly say introduces indescrepencies. The idea of having a tranny make is rubbish unless of course he is using an inept unmanaged printers. I would make the file as you have done with adobe camera raw. Then make larger using bicubic smoother, to 100mb, blur the blue channel using smart blur, then sharpen the green and red channels with usm. This will always give a better result then onto 5/4 and scan.
You are right, he is wrong. But having said that if he wants to pay for your time to do the 5/4 and prints then who am I to argue. A way would be find out what size prints he is talking about. Make the image size to to that and then crop to an a3+ print and print that small section. That should show him. I did an print recently on a d100 which was made to 4m wide, used the process as above. They were very happy. Larger file size does not mean better quality prints. As an rough equivalent an 18mb digital file shot at 200asa is equivalent to a 100mb file scanned on my scan elite at 5400dpi and shot on velvia, if not better and verging on 6/4.5. Its like a car, the american engines produce say 300bhp with a 6 litre engine with old technology thinking bigger is better but a small japanese engine about 2 litres produces the same or more with new technology. peace Ian Reynolds =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
