Howdy, folks,
Well, today, I had my first real experience printing digital photos
captured on digital. I'm using the same Epson Stylus Photo 820 that
I've been using the last several years, and I'm still on Photoshop 7.
My system is well enough color-calibrated that I don't think twice about
whether the print will match what I saw on screen. That's largely luck
or something, but that's another story.
The story is that for irrelevant reasons, I've been called upon to
generate 8" x 10" prints from some photos I shot with the *ist D. I
suddenly realized a few minutes ago that this was the first set of
prints I'd made from images captured directly to digital.
In the past, I've done a lot of capturing and printing of digital
images, but it was always in workflows mediated by film. Shoot on film.
Scan to digital. Digital workflow from there to prints.
I've been scanning the film at 4000 ppi, and spending untold hours of
angst dealing with "Nyquist noise" ("grain aliasing"). I'm used to
having to dink with the levels extensively, or resort to curves a lot of
the time, nontrivial amounts of "spotting" for dust and such. I'm used
to having to apply some Gaussian Blur before the Unsharp Mask will do
what it ought to do.
All I can say is "WOW!". Generating good to excellent prints took about
90 seconds each ... load in PS, crop, 15 seconds in levels, set image
size for print size, print ... about 0.01 of the time I'm used to doing
to get a decent print of a film image scanned to digital. "WOW!"
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Thanks,
DougF (KG4LMZ)
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