Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/04

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Subject: [Leica] Why sharpen?
From: imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:58:21 -0500
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In the world of commercial photography for reproduction
unsharp masking was often employed to bring the most striking image  
to press.

It required pin registration and rigorous craft to achieve the  
desired results.
<http://www.largeformatphotography.info/unsharp/>

Regards,
George Lottermoser
george at imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com/blog
http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist

On Jun 4, 2009, at 7:59 AM, Frank Filippone wrote:

> What I do not understand is why digital "requires" sharpening, when  
> for the
> past 150 or so years, film did not.
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