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 Originally Posted by Early Riser
The digital neg is strictly for contact printing or can it be used for enlargement? Like make it an 8x10 neg and enlarge to a 20x24 print? Can I use this method instead of LVT negs?
Contact printing only.
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Some after thoughts I had when reviewing the print...
While the FB print appears lighter then the digital picture, I know this is because the Dmax of the paper is not able to reach that of the digital file. When I scanned the print no adjustments (no black point set) were made. Also, while the digital file looks far sharper (it was sharpened a bit to preserve details), the compressed version posted looks far sharper then the original file because of compression I think.
When I went back and set the black point in the scanned FB print, it looked very similar to the original file.
Does anyone else have any general helpful hints or tips so I might improve?
Has anyone tried gray scale inks such as MIS to produce digital negatives, if so, how did it work out for you?
Thanks,
Martin
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Originally Posted by menglert
Some after thoughts I had when reviewing the print...
While the FB print appears lighter then the digital picture, I know this is because the Dmax of the paper is not able to reach that of the digital file. When I scanned the print no adjustments (no black point set) were made. Also, while the digital file looks far sharper (it was sharpened a bit to preserve details), the compressed version posted looks far sharper then the original file because of compression I think.
When I went back and set the black point in the scanned FB print, it looked very similar to the original file.
Does anyone else have any general helpful hints or tips so I might improve?
Has anyone tried gray scale inks such as MIS to produce digital negatives, if so, how did it work out for you?
Thanks,
Martin
MIS gray scale inks are not a good choice for several reasons. They do not dry properly on Pictorico or other transparent materials. Grey scale inks cause distortions of the tonal scale, and don't always block UV light particularly well. Or to put it another way it is difficult to get enough ink density to make decent negatives.
I would stronly suggest that you look at several sources of information about making digital negatives.
1) Purchase Dan Burkholder's book.
http://www.danburkholder.com/
2) Purchase Mark Nelson's ebook.
http://www.precisiondigitalnegatives.com/
3) Look at Clay Harmon's Color Ratio article covering the production of inkjet negatives.
http://www.alternativephotography.co...es/art056.html
4) Huntington Witherill's black & white calibration system of digital output.
http://www.huntingtonwitherill.com/
IMO, Brad Hinkel and Jim Read's digital method really don't produce great results.
Hope this helps,
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