[filmscanners] Re: Compact Cameras

["" <lotusm50@sprynet.com>]

You should check out the PeizographyBW Black and White inkjet printing
system from Jon Cone (and inkjetmall.com).  It is really amazing.   No
bronzing, no metemerism, no fading, rich deep black and long tonal
scale.  It is really, really very good.


LAURIE SOLOMON wrote:

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>First, even at today's stage in technology, I do not find digital black
>and white to be all that satisfactory be it captured with a digital
>camera or scanned in via a scanner.  I find that both the monitor
>displaying and the hard copy printing of digital black & white to be
>full of problems that result in much additional work to correct or
>minimize or in less than satisfactory quality.  Issues such as the
>ability of dye based inkjet prints or pigmented inkjet prints to render
>the images with true rich blacks with little bronzing or metemerism with
>clean neutral whites without warm or cold color casts, the tendency to
>emphasize grain structure, aliasing, and noise when rendering the image,
>and the frequent exhibiting of color artifacts in the form of stray
>color pixels that appear.  To be sure, some of this will be found with
>B&W film based captures that are scanned and reproduced just as it is
>with the digital camera captures since these issues seem to revolve
>around the rendering and reproduction stages rather than the capture
>stages; but I have found the problems easier to deal with when scanning
>B&W films and rendering them into monitor displays and prints than is
>the case with digital camera captures.  This is especially true given
>that there are a number of varying film types and speeds to use that are
>better for different subjects and scan with differing results with
>respect to some of the problems mentioned like emphasis of grain
>structure, aliasing, and noise which is not true for digital camera
>unless one has an arsenal of different digital cameras to select from
>that use different sensors in different configurations.
>
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