Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hehe....funny... Actually...I have a bad habit of replying to posts with one line responses which on reflection might sound as if they are harder than I intended. Erwin is certainly correct in that a traditional b/w print will show more absolute detail than a print made from my Epson 1270. I made some 8x10s last week from some Hasselblad negatives, and the sharpness is apparent at a glance. However, looking at those prints, all I can think of is, "I wish I had a medium format scanner so I can make some REAL prints from those negatives, on my 1270!". Maybe some of the sharpness will be lost (not maybe, but yes), but in the end I am sure I could improve upon the overall look of the images. The prints I make with my 1270 are simply better (they do a better job of conveying what it was I was trying to accomplish) than what I can do in the darkroom. And I think that the people out there (and on the LUG) who are darkroom wizzards can easily translate those skills to a program like Photoshop. Dan C. At 11:15 AM 18-07-00 +0100, Doug Richardson wrote: >From: Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net> wrote: > >>I do not allow people to view my photographs with loupes. I consider >it a >personal insult when they do. > >The original pre-war edition of the "Leica Manual" referred to people >who inspected prints from close-up as "grain sniffers", and expressed >strong dissaproval of the practice. > >Regards, > >Doug Richardson > > > >