Thanks CH and Moose. It's a 4000 DPI scan. When I print, I scale it to 360
DPI (a factor of 1440), then sharpen. I did some rescanning and playing
around and I think there are two things here. First is that I am picking up
the film grain. The 400ASA film is pretty good until it hits 10x8
enlargement or so. I play w/ the Nikon scanner's GEM (some sort of grain
reduction thing) and it helps a little. Secondly, the pattern seems to get
affected by which type of sharpening I use. The one posted was done by
unsharp mask the lightness channel after converting it to Lab Color mode. I
got that advice from one of the website or book, I don't recall which. That
technique works well most of the time, but not for certain things, I guess.
I also got a PShop "action" calls Ultra-Sharpen (for $15 or something) that
does a whole bunch of things instead of just straight unsharp mask and it
seems to work better for this case.
After playing w/ different things, I do seem to be able to get a fairly
decent 8x10 output.
// richard <http://www.imagecraft.com>
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