Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Not to start something off topic, but I fail to follow. Printing a scanned negative onto an inkjet printer is similar to projecting a slide onto a textured ceiling. They key here is the outpost medium. The garbage comes in the "out" part. - --- "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> wrote: > The irony of using a Leica camera and lens to expose > a negative, and > then use an ink-jet printer to make the print! :) > > -- > What irony? The better the lens, the better the neg. > The better the neg, the > better the scan. The better the scan, the better the > output. Isn't that > essentially the photo corollary of garbage in, > garbage out? > > - ----- Two points...In the first place, the print quality of the current generation of Epson inkjet photo printers can hardly be likened to a textured ceiling....Is it identical to a silver print? Of course not. It is a different medium. But it can produce quite stunning results... And, in the second place, the point I was making was that the ultimate output quality will be markedly improved by improving the input quality. There is almost always an advantage to using the best possible quality lenses to make the original image. Will that image be degraded by a less than optimum printing medium? Of course. But the better the input, the less degraded the output. Cheers B. D.