Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ok, Ok.... I promise. I'll pick a neg or two and wander on down to Chrome here in DC in the next week and have a few big wet prints made. LOL. Maybe I have mild OCD or something :-) In another life, I might have been a quality assurance engineer or something :-) Still, I did find Barry Thornton's book a nice read. Scott Ted Grant wrote: > Scott McLoughlin offeered: > >> Even with a 4000 DPI scan on a Nikon Coolscan mutli-sampled >> with Vuescan to reduce noise (and so on and on), I find 8x10 >> is OK or sometimes even pushing it depending on the image. I >> know there are folks who print much larger (digitally), so maybe >> I've got something to learn. >> I read the "Edge of Darkness" book, where Barry Thornton says >> that he only thinks a Hassie neg should be printed 10x10 inches >> and perhaps that spooked me as far as bigger enlargements are >> concerned :-)<,,, > > > Scott mon ami stop thinking about it and just do it, make some bigger > prints and be surprised at the excellence of a 13X19 print and see for > yourself. It's all well and good to read the theory pushers, but > practical users know better as we produce digital 13X19 prints every > day and I defy anyone to tell me they're no good! > > By the same token when we shoot we fill the frame with little or no > waste space, actually no different than shooting film, so there's > little cropping required. > > Try it, you might be surprised. ;-) > > ted > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information