Digital BW, The Print

This also depends on your source of your data. As I recall, Ginny shoots  
on film and scans everything. In that case she has a record of the  
original data in the negative. Then keep an archive of the 8-bit "as  
printed" file is adequate. She can rescan at any time. If you shoot  
digital, then your original capture file in tiff, or even better, raw, is  
what you should be keeping. If you ever decide to "go back" and make any  
changes to the way a print turned out, then you will need the original.  
Trying to re-edit an 8-bit file is just asking for trouble. I generally  
keep the source files, in raw, and the "as-printed" files, at 8-bit, for  
any image I think is worth keeping at all. I may also keep some  
intermediary files.

Steve Taylor


  On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 17:50:22 -0800, Edward Wiseman <pahts@...>  
wrote:

> I'd like to "jump-in" if I may..
> If one chooses that sometime in the future when he/she has MORE  
> knowledge of
> editing an image via PHOTOSHOP or whatever, they stand MORE of a chance  
> of
> getting a better PRINT IMHO, if their "new-found" knowledge is applied  
> to a
> 16 bit image..As for printing out this "final" image file, the printer
> itself cares not whether the image is 16 or 8 bits, but will express the
> information much BETTER in the form of a print that has been EDITED in 16
> bit..
>
>
> Just my 2cents..
>
> Eddie Wiseman
>
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