Digital BW, The Print

Hi Quentin- I'm writing off-list as this is fairly OT-

I am considering the S1, as well as the Olympus E-20.  Have you produced any
quad prints from S1 photos?  How large have you tried printing?  What are
the limitations of the S1?

Thanks for any guidance you can give.

Bill Morse
PhotoProspect
Cambridge, MA 02139


on 1/16/02 12:02 PM, qdfb wrote:

Hi,

You raise some big issues...

A number of photographers believe D30 / Fuji S1 / D1X etc output
matches the quality of a scanned 35mm transparency. Michael Reichmann
of the Luminous Landscape, who uses a D30, is one well known
subscriber to this view.

I shoot with an S1 (and other stuff), and in my opinion, for some
subjects it is considerably *better* than film - portraits being the
best example - and that includes conversion to B&W.  I prefer the S1
to scanned medium format film for portraits.  I think, however it is
a more difficult choice with landscape or architecture above A4
size.  You don't say what you shoot, so it is difficult to advise.

It is a personal choice, influenced by subject matter.  I simply find
I get the medium format kit out much less often now that I own an
S1.  However, I still use 5x4...

Loads of people still shoot film, and will do for some time to come.
I prefer to shoot digitally wherever possible.  Genuine Fractals is a
good way to interpolate up, but there is an almost as good
alternative, called stair interpolation (simply a Photoshop action to
increase an image size in multiple stages).  Also try out Lanczos
interpolation that comes with Qimage (there is a trial version -
superb program).

You should get very good results with the D30.
--
Quentin



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