[Leica] 20D B&W

[daniel.ridings at edd.uio.no (Daniel Ridings)]

But BD ... how much of that noise is seen in a print?

I have some really noisy files but when they are printed out you can't
even find it. I just noticed that recently.

When I edit the files in fullsize on the screen I think "that will look
really bad". But when I print them out, I just don't see it anymore.

Daniel

On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, B. D. Colen wrote:

> I think that it looks better, Slobodan, because "grain" is more
> acceptable in bw - and because the noise isn't seen as color speckles.
>
> One way to reduce noise in low light - to answer Adam's question - is to
> routinely OVER expose by about 1/3 ev in order to make sure that you
> don't UNDER expose. I know this runs counter to all the digital advice -
> expose digital like slide film, exposing for the highlights. At 1/3 ev
> over you're unlikely to really blow out the highlights, and you're less
> likely to underexpose. And underexposure causes a huge increase in
> noise.
>
> Ironically, however I am absolutely convinced that there is more detail
> in the shadows in digital exposed in low light than there is film. I
> have seen this time and time again.
>
> B. D.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
> Slobodan Dimitrov
> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 3:38 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] 20D B&W
>
>
> I did notice that on color.
> But just yesterday I tried it on a BW image with much better results. S.
> Dimitrov
>
>
> On Jan 21, 2005, at 10:43 AM, B. D. Colen wrote:
>
> > True...But the shadow/highlights feature, as fabulous as it is at
> > salvaging disasters, has drawbacks - one being that it tends to
> > increase noise in dark areas opened up.