Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]And who does look at prints with a 20x loupe, other than the printer? I am constantly amazed by the nonsense of people talking about what they can or can't see when the examine images with loupes - loupes are for checking focusing, or the presence or absence of critical detail - not for image viewing. Oh, you can see "dots" when you look at a digital print with a 20x loupe? Well, guess what? You can see grain - jagged dots - in a silver print with a 20x loupe - or your naked eye for that matter if you're close enough and the print is big enough. Want to judge the quality of any kind of print? Then put down the damn loupe and stand back from it at least the distance of the diagonal of the print - no print is meant to be viewed from closer than that. Again, are digital prints the same as silver prints, particular fiber prints? No, despite what some say, they still have a different look and feel. But that doesn't make the fiber prints "better," at least not any better than oils are 'better' than water colors, or wood sculpture is better than, or inferior to, bronze sculpture. They're DIFFERENT. B. D. Frustrated in Vancouver, Wash, where it's gray and rainy, my body clock insisted I get up at 5:30 a.m. and I'd rather be home than wasting Memorial Day weekend on another one of these mind-numbing epilepsy shoots ;-) On 5/27/06 11:10 AM, "Tina Manley" <images@InfoAve.Net> wrote: > At 10:42 PM 5/26/2006, you wrote: >> Moreover, no inkjet system (and I suspect no lightjet system, about >> this I am unsure) has the resolution of silver-gelatin or even color >> printing paper. You look with a 20x magnifier and you see the dots. >> Nothing wrong with this, except if you are curious about some detail >> twenty years from now and have only the print. >> >> Have I missed the revolution? >> >> MK > > You haven't seen good inkjet prints ;-) But then again I don't > usually look at my prints with a 20x loupe. I hold them at arm's > length or stand across the room and look at the content not the ink dots. > > I totally disagree about the quality of digital. Digital surpasses > almost all film. And I'm using the same lenses with digital that I > did with film. > > Tina > > Tina Manley, ASMP, NPPA > http://www.tinamanley.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information