[Leica] scanning fever

[Mark Rabiner]

On 7/23/14 12:50 AM, "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:

> The big dark mounting really has an edge effect around it somehow either
> from the way its lit or your sharpening or both or neither. But I think its
> the first two. I'd think of different applications i.e. print sizes you'd
> sharpen it defiantly. For use on paper with a bit of unfortunate texture to
> it  you might sharpen the bloody hell out of it as it'd need it.
> To me .. Here looks great! I think its a solid "wow" shot!
> 


Correction:
The big dark mountain.
And not big dark candy mountain either!

Thanks Mark!
> 
> On 7/23/14 12:03 AM, "Ken Carney" <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote:
> 
>> Or on a print on the wall probably.
>> 
>> 
>> On 7/22/2014 8:25 PM, Richard Man wrote:
>>> AH, nothing like a 4x5 tonality :-)
>>> 
>>> I highly doubt one can tell the difference sharpening based on a web based
>>> photo!
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 6:07 PM, Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 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
>>>> 
>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/kcarney/Scan-140722-0001.jpg.html
>>>> 
>>>> 
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