Digital BW, The Print

Clayton

That was quick. Thanks! Sorry about not quoting you correctly.- I take
it then that sensors will get smaller, more powerful and more
sensitive at a pace of one ore more quality steps per annum ... oooff!
LEICA was somehow slower (and perhaps more sustainable)in their
development ...

(Enjoy sommertime - xmas is lurking around the corner with lots of
nice new digicams to choose from ...)

73's

chatzebussi 




--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Clayton Jones"
<cj@c...> wrote:
> Hello Chatzebussi,
> 
> >For aesthetical and practical reasons I am a fervent believer in
> >BO-printing,too.
> 
> There are lots of us!
> 
>  
> >Today  I again came across your favourite conversion method
> >http://www.cjcom.net/articles/digiprn7.htm
> >similar to Russel Brown's one mentioned in Katrin Eismann's 
> >standard work "Photoshop Restoration and Retouching"
> >I seem to remember that you have tried the PS plug-in
> >http://www.theimagingfactory.com/
> >"Convert to B&W"  some time ago yourself (In the meantime this 
> >has become my standard conversion tool). 
> > 
> >What's the main difference, please - not talking about the price, 
> >of course. Does it have certain advantages? 
> 
> I tried the plugin demo back when I first began using digicams and was
> trying to get the Tri-X look (which I never accomplished with any
> satisfaction and eventually abandoned).  I remember that the results
> weren't convincing enough for me to want to pay the money.  It may be
> a fine conversion tool, it just didn't give me what I was looking for
> at the time, so I'm not in any way suggesting it's not a good tool.  I
> subsequently tried lots of techniques and settled on the one I wrote
> about because it seemed to give the best bang for the buck (comparing
> complexity/time/effort to results).  I can't really give a comparison
> between the two.  I hope this helps.
> 
> 
> >In one of your recent posts you quite rightly pointed out that 
> >the megapixel war will come to an end very soon and that other 
> >sensor features will become more and more important 
> 
> Actually I didn't say exactly that.  I was expressing my agreement
> with what someone else said, and I don't seem to remember "very soon"
> as being part of the idea.  I don't have a particular timetable in
> mind for the ideas I was discussing.  Here is the actual quote from my
> post:
> 
> "Someone pointed out that once the MP race hits diminishing
> returns they'll turn to improving the DR and other attributes of the
> sensors themselves. I agree..."
> 
> 
> 
> >I for one am longing for smallish high ISO sensors of course.
> 
> They are certainly geting better at it.  For a pocket cam I just got a
> new Casio Z-750 (7mp on 1/8 chip) to replace my Z-50 (5 mp on 1/2.7
> chip), which is a bit over a year old I think, and the difference is
> huge.  For the first time I actually have a usable ISO 400, and these
> cams are the size of a deck of cards.  Amazing.  They keep getting
> better and better and I think it will continue.
> 
> 
> >Any suggestions?
> 
> Nope.  Just keep experimenting, that's what we're all doing.  
> 
> Regards,
> Clayton
> 
> 
> Info on black and white digital printing at    
> http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm