[Leica] scanning fever

[Ken Carney]

Or on a print on the wall probably.


On 7/22/2014 8:25 PM, Richard Man wrote:
> AH, nothing like a 4x5 tonality :-)
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> I highly doubt one can tell the difference sharpening based on a web based
> photo!
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> On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 6:07 PM, Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote:
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>> The posts about scanning incented (that's what the word is in Dilbert) me
>> to pull some negs and try again.  Here is one made today from a 4x5 TMax
>> 100 neg, Rodenstock 210mm lens at sunup.  It is Manly Beacon in Death
>> Valley, looking west to the Panamints, and should make a  nice 16x24" print
>> as cropped.  East behind is Zabriskie Point.  For this one and others, I
>> have been using deconvolution software (Topaz Infocus preferably, or Focus
>> Magic) for pre-sharpening instead of the unsharp mask pre-sharpening
>> variants.  The deconvolution software seems to do a better pre-sharpening
>> job, though it is subtle.  Comments always appreciated.
>>
>> Ken
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>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/kcarney/Scan-140722-0001.jpg.html
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