RE: [Leica] Help printing scanned Leica negatives!

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

Interesting take on the situation....Actually, as heretical as heretical as
I know the view is, I couldn't pretend to see the difference (under most
circumstances) between an image taken with good Canon glass and Leica
lenses. I shoot with Ms because a. I find that using a rangefinder, with the
finder lines, forces me to frame much more carefully than I do with a
reflex, b. I find it much easier to focus wide angle lenses, particularly in
low light, with a rangefinder, c. the camera is small and quiet, d. it is
incredibly reliable, e. the glass is terrific.



- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Frank
Conley
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 1999 1:28 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: RE: [Leica] Help printing scanned Leica negatives!


Of course, the better the input, the better the output. My point is,
however, that there is a point of diminishing returns. If the end
medium is going to be an inkjet photo printer, why not sell the M6 (or
R or whatever) and buy a Mac G4, a high end scanner, and some EOS L
series lenses to make your life easier. Any quality increase the Leica
glass could give you will be lost in the final "print" quality. It
seems that if the digital darkroom is the goal, it's better to allocate
one's resources on the part that takes the most work and that you have
the most control over--PhotoShop and scanning.

This all presumes that one (like me) has limited resources with which
to work. ;)

- --Frank

- --- "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Two points...In the first place, the print quality
> of the current generation
> of Epson inkjet photo printers can hardly be likened
> to a textured
> ceiling....Is it identical to a silver print? Of
> course not. It is a
> different medium. But it can produce quite stunning
> results...
>
> And, in the second place, the point I was making was
> that the ultimate
> output quality will be markedly improved by
> improving the input quality.
> There is almost always an advantage to using the
> best possible quality
> lenses to make the original image. Will that image
> be degraded by a less
> than optimum printing medium? Of course. But the
> better the input, the less
> degraded the output.
>
> Cheers
>
> B. D.
>
>

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