From: shannon stoney (sstoney@pdq.net)
Date: 04/10/02-06:36:09 PM Z
Sandy wrote:
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>You did not say anything about the original negative or how you
>scanned it! I suspect the reason for the fuzzy look is in these
>areas rather than in the dpi you set for printing. A few days ago I
>complained about granular look of a 13X19 negative made on Pictorico
>with the 2000P. However, the negative, which was originally scanned
>at about 1600 dpi with an Imacon scanner, and then enhanced with the
>Unsharp Mask and High Pass filter, is gloriously sharp. In fact, it
>prints with greater apparent sharpness than is in an original silver
>gelatin print made directly from the 5X7 negative.
So, maybe the granular look of digital negs doesn't matter? I think
my original negative may be a bit fuzzy to begin with. It is 4x5, but
it was a rather long exposure at night of a person sitting, who
probably moved a bit. So I scanned another one today, on the Epson
1680 at school, and printed out the new negative at 600 dpi. I
haven't printed it in cyanotype yet, but I see banding in the thin
areas. This was a problem in the other one too. I went through all
the "cures" for banding in the book, including cleaning the heads and
realigning them and all that, but it didn't eliminate the banding.
Any more ideas on how to get rid of it? It's longways banding, ie
vertical.
--shannon
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