Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Sarah Thompson
<sarah@...> wrote:

> I hate to be a contrarian, but I actually happen to own a Megavision E4 
> monochrome (16 megapixel, 37mm square 4096x4096 Kodak sensor) which I 
> use on my Bronica ETRS. I also have a Better Light Super-6K scan back 
> (150 megapixel, colour, 8000x6000, trilinear array sensor). 

-snip

Wish I had the ability to have a need for one of these monchrome
backs, but alas I'll probably never be at that level, or with that
much extra cash to get one. Wish I had even a "lowly" monochrome E3
back (6MP), or better yet an old S3 monochrome so that it works with
my Batpac.

Even at 12 bit (4096 levels of gray) it would be more than any inkjet
can faithfully reproduce, especially on matte papers. The printers may
have a 16 bit workflow, and that workflow may indeed produce smoother
transitions from paper white to ink black, but they do not yet produce
a real 16 bit (65536 levels) at output.