>LAURIE SOLOMON asked if my digital prints apparently look better "because of >their scanning in 8-bit versus 16-bit and not because of some other >factor...?" In addition to the hi bit factor, I make serious efforts in >color balance, defect removal, perspective correction, and anything else i >can figure out how to do.
Alas, without trying to belabor this, you avoided my question. You claim with the implicit if not explicit implication that your pproduct is better than the others because of the 16-bit rather than 8-bit scans, regardless of what other corrections, adjustments, etc. you engage in. I did not ask what other techniques you used to produce your output; I explicitly asked what evidence you had that the bit depth difference between your scans and those of the others actually made a difference or entered into the equation in determining why your output is better than theirs. It could be that the difference would have taken place given all your other effort even if you had scanned in 8-bit. > I know that the next generation of >Epsons will be 16 bit, the next version of photoshop will be 16 bit And how pray tell do you know this with any sort of certainty? Are you privy to information that the general public is not? I do thank you for your source referrals, however. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of HPA Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 9:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] additional remarks about 8bit / hi bit LAURIE SOLOMON asked if my digital prints apparently look better "because of their scanning in 8-bit versus 16-bit and not because of some other factor...?" In addition to the hi bit factor, I make serious efforts in color balance, defect removal, perspective correction, and anything else i can figure out how to do. HI bit technique has some good tutorials. Check the writings of Jeff Schewe, here is his basic tutorial: schewephoto.com/workshop/pdfs/Pro_Workflow.pdf I found a lot of great tips on the digital black & white list on Yahoo, in particular Roy Harrington's posts. These are the guys who are winning fine-art photography print contests with digital prints. "but what are you printing or outputing to?" I am making a master scan on CD. It needs to be able to print on an epson or get sent to a publisher as a tif cd. I know that the next generation of Epsons will be 16 bit, the next version of photoshop will be 16 bit, so I don't want to have to re-do everything every few years. Publishers will do final adjustments to my files, depending on whether they are printing color, halftone, duotone, etc., I have no control. Art directors appreciate a file they can work with. I am doing both black & white and color. Arthur Entlich asked what kind of scanner i use. I have Polaroid SS4000 for slides. I have my own half-glass carriers to keep the film entirely in focus. I always remove the film from the slide mount for scanning. Kodachromes made before 1955 had a varnish on the film that needs to be removed before scanning. My large format negative scanner is a Artixscan 1800. I bought it because it was reputed to have the greatest scan depth of any 8x10 flatbed. Some of the stuff i have to scan is unbelievable poor quality compared to modern professional film. I scan glass plates that are so dense you can't see through them. I scan Autochrome color plates from the early 1900s to 1950s Ektachromes with only the red layer surviving. I do have some programs that fix up old faded color photos. i use them to preview my possibilities for color restorations. After I see these results i have a good idea of what i want to do. Then I do all the restorations manually using curves. Dan Margulis book Professional Photoshop has some of the best color correction info available that i know of. If you get PPI magazine, check the dec 2002 issue for a preview of the book. Tom Robinson ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
