DN Questions

[lcooper]

When printing DN do you sharpen prior to printing? Also, do you adjust contrast on the print or use contrast filters on your enlarger?

Thanks

 

[Joe Lipka]

Printing the negative? More than likely.

Digital negatives are supposed to be "perfect" for the paper being used because you have taken all sorts of steps to insure the negative prints without manipulation.

Digital Negatives are not used in enlargers, but only as a contact print.

 

[Loris Medici]

Enlarger!? That explains your other quesion in the Printers forum then... If you're really enlarging digital negatives, you're probably seeing the printer's dithering pattern.

As Joe says: digital negatives are used for contact printing only... I mean those done with an inkjet printer. (I think 8000dpi film recorder negatives - which are real film negatives, where the source image is digital - may be enlarged pretty successfully, BUT w/o pushing too much!)

Regards,
Loris.

 

[lcooper]

I an contact printing the negative. Sorry I was not clear about that. I am using the enlarger light to contact print.

 

[Marco B]

I an contact printing the negative. Sorry I was not clear about that. I am using the enlarger light to contact print.

I guess the confusion arose since you are most likely contact printing onto normal silver based photo paper than, like Ilford MGIV using your enlarger, and most people here are doing alternative processes which require specially designed UV light-banks, and long exposure times.

You wouldn't able to use your enlargers light source for for example a platinum/palladium print, or probably have to wait for ages for what little UV gets emitted by a normal enlarger head, to have any effect on the sensitized paper.