Digital BW, The Print

David Sinai wrote about differences he has seen between small 
black-only prints he's made from his own 20D exposures and small 
black-only prints he's made from FSA scans of large-format film.

I happened to see David's post just before I saw Erwin Puts's recent 
article, at <http://www.imx.nl/photosite/comments/c023.html>, about 
how size matters, whether it is the size of film, 35mm vs. medium 
format, or the size of the digital sensor, 20D vs. 5D. For the film 
comparison, Erwin Puts relies on Crawley's 1993 article. For the 
sensor comparison, Puts does his own tests. He concludes that 
differences in size still matter, contrary to Phil Askey's 
comparitive conclusions near the end of his dpeview.com review of 
Nikon's D200.

I'm not sure how relevant Erwin Puts work is to David's conjectures 
about other possibilities, but I think it does give David another 
conjecture to consider, and one that might be easier to test.
--
Sam