Digressing just a little bit I just just got some 20x20cm prints done (from my own scans) from a 'pro' shop of my guitar http://www.flickr.com/photos/chatanooga/156779558/ and an interesting problem (possibly to do with dpi) has come up: the guitar rosette which is a series of very fine concentric circles shows noticeable 'jaggies'/ bumpy circle in a few places in the print. I have printed the image once or twice before on frontiers, etc and to the naked eye they have been perfectly smooth. Which is what I'd expect as this is how they show up in the 100% view in photoshop, etc. Maybe the lab did some wacky scaling - I am very curious ot find out! In fairness to them at least the black and white appeared to be pretty neutral - it shows the noritsu print to have been quite purple. And digressing further a little bit of trawling brought up this gem of an exchange between 2 famous french photographers: .....*When I first came to Paris, I had the nerve to show him some of my Rolleiflex photos. He exclaimed that if God had wanted us to photograph with a 2 1/4 by 2 1/4 camera, he would have put eyes on our bellies. So I bought a Leica *............... On 1/21/07, ERoustom <eroustom@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> I have had some large (30 x 30) lightjet prints made from Rollei > >> negative that I have scanned myself, and when I look at them with > >> a loupe, I don't see pixels. They are just like optical prints, > >> in my experience, not inkjets. On closer inspection of my 5" sq. (12.7cm) prints with a standard 8X loupe, I can see pixels. They are fine, and finding them requires keying in to the pattern - ignoring the illusion of the image - but, for what it's worth, they are there. E. --- Rollei List - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Online, searchable archives are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list
