Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/04

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Darkroom depression
From: ray tai <razerx@netvigator.com>
Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 00:14:11 +0800

The limitation is with the negative and the information in it, right?  If the
enlarger lens cannot "read" the details in the negative because of underexposure
or severe overexposure can a scanner do better?   Poor technique is poor
technique unless you completely bypass the negative and shoot on some medium that
can hold 30 zones of information.

Ray


Dan Cardish wrote:

> Excuse me while I play Devil's Advocate.  Lets presume you do have a shot
> of Tri-X taken in mid afternoon, that is next to impossible to print *in
> the darkroom*.  Is this not just a limitation of traditional prinring
> techniques?  Perhaps digital techniques would make the negative very
> printable.  What we call poor technique is relative to current practices.
> Why not take those shots in midafternoon on tri-x?   Why limit yourself,
> just because some old fashioned obsolete technology won't handle it properly.
>
> Dan C.
>
>   At 08:35 PM 04-05-00 +0800, ray tai wrote:
> >Hello Dan,
> >
> >[snip]   I have friends who would show me contact sheets of Tri-X shot in the
> >middle of the afternoon with half the subject being the sky and they couldn't
> >figure out why it has no tones.  Try to print the sucker and you will quickly
> >learn how to expose it in the first place.
> >
> >By the way should you choose to forgo the darkroom try Kodak CN400 which I
> find
> >to be exceptionally scan friendly.
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >