Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]From: A.H.SCHMIDT <horst.schmidt@actek.com.au> Sent: Monday, September 27, 1999 14:22 Subject: Re: [Leica] Grey Zone > They have about 1/2 a stop latitude if you want to > do things correctly. By latitude, I meant the range of exposures for which the film will register a useful amount of detail. I've read that slide films will usually do this within a five-stop range, which is pretty sorry, but I guess it's better than nothing. I'm not sure what 1/2-stop latitude is supposed to mean. For anything other than a gray card, there is no objectively ideal exposure, since so much depends on what part of the image you want to see most clearly. If contrasts are extreme, desirable exposures might well extend over a range of two or three stops, although I suppose they don't often do so in practice. > Compared to a well done print or projected colour slide, your > Jpeg files look like crap. You never know. Some of the well-done prints and color slides you see nowadays may well have been generated from JPEG files. -- Anthony