Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark E Davison writes: > After you scan the print, you can expand the > dynamic range in photoshop to anything that you want. No, you cannot. You have only the range in the original print. Spreading it out over a larger range of intensities changes nothing. > There is certainly no reason to not use the > entire dynamic range of the monitor. Of course, but since the range of a print is so limited, it really doesn't matter. You don't have enough information to fill that range in the first place. > The fact that the optical density range of negatives > is greater than the reflectance density range of > prints is a bit of a red herring. It's painfully obvious when you compare scans of prints with scans directly from film. > The beautiful images on Ralph Gibson's website > (www.ralphgibson.com) are all scans from prints. They definitely look like scans from prints.