Digital BW, The Print

BTW, I didn't know that the Photoshop Camera Raw
plugin was supporting the D70 yet.  Is it?


--- Howard Slavitt <howard.slavitt@...>
wrote:
> I recently bought a Nikon D70 and am having lots of
> fun taking photos of my son and 
> printing them on an Epson 1200 with MIS VM inks. 
> (My 1200 is especially well calibrated 
> to the VM curves because it was the "model" that
> Paul Roark used to generate the curves 
> for this printer.)  One thing I've noticed from
> prints from this 6 megapixel DSLR is that, 
> unlike MIS VM prints I've done from scans of 6 cm x
> 9 cm color slides converted to black 
> and white in Photoshoip, certain shadow detail areas
> (especially my son's hair) end up 
> having large pixelation blocks (areas where there
> are large blotchy blocks of black ink).  I 
> notice these types of areas on prints larger than 8
> x 10" (i.e. printed a 180 dpi) and to a 
> much lesser extent on some 8 x 10" prints (i.e.
> printed at 240 dpi).  I've noticed this from 
> other digital cameras, in particular my Canon G2. 
> My hypotheses as to what's causing this 
> is that: a. It is caused by the Bayer pattern,
> and/or b. It's caused by my overaggressive use 
> of the levels and/or curves commands in Photoshop to
> get a full range of shadow values.  
> It's not just in the prints but also noticeable at
> 100% view in Photoshop, although much 
> less visible in Photoshop than in the actual prints.
>  Has anyone else noticed this 
> phenomenon?  Any decent solutions for getting rid of
> it?  BTW, my work flow is to shoot in 
> raw, and use the Photoshop Camera Raw plug in.  I
> work entirely in 16 bit.  I am very 
> skilled in Photoshop.  I do not oversharpen.  Thanks
> for your help.  BTW, I love the D70.  
> I'm falling in love with photography all over again.
> 
> 


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