Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/09/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 9/22/05, Bill Smith <wrs111445@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Thanks to Daniel for your reply/ advice. A couple of questions: > I guess you have no differance in quality between CD-RW and DVD? Digitally, no. The only difference in quality could be if the person scanning reasoned "I have so much more room to store scans, I'll save them at higher resolutions on DVD." But I doubt that they think like that. > Also there is no > differance in quality between CD-RW and negative? D?rom tvistar de l?rda ... "not as crystal clear". This is my own personal experience, ok? I have a darkroom, Leitz V35 enlarger for 35mm, Durst for larger formats. I could go out and print my negatives or I could continue scanning them in and printing them out on inkjet. I choose to scan them in and print them out with an inkjet printer. The quality of _my_ (note: my) prints from the darkroom are lower than the quality I get from scans. I simply lack the patience to piddle around all day to get a good print. I'd rather piddle around with Photoshop, get it right, and then be able to produce several prints of the same quality easily. But that's just me. Now if your service provider, you lab, has a very good printer, than possibly the print from the negative will be better than the scan. But to tell the truth, I don't think it works like that anymore. In a lot of places, even if you give them a negative, they print from a scan. Not very clear now was it? Best, Daniel If the answer to last question > is "no," I guess there is no reason to keep negatives? > > Again, thanks to anyone who replies. > > Bill