Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I tracked down the origin of the salt-and-pepper texture I was seeing. It results from trying to use unsharp masking to resolve the grain and recover the acuity of the B&W image. Basically with the Nikon LS-2000 at 2700 dpi you hit the salt and pepper before you satisfactorily recover the grain. For me its especially acute with Neopan 1600. Here's an example: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=278487&size=lg Mark Davison