Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/05/17

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Subject: [Leica] Shocking: MM images do not look like film!
From: richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)
Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 22:02:08 -0700
References: <CAFuU78fsRKu=MciMpi5Nn4--TUnVFv0YCZk=vZbMKSOyxvk5Bg@mail.gmail.com> <CBDB4AF5.1E60B%mark@rabinergroup.com>

Mark, no one says film is better. If you look at the referred to images,
they were quite flat. The author eventually admits that he could have done
more and indeed he passed the files to other people who did more and the
images were 100% better.

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 9:40 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
wrote:

> I wonder what film is supposed to look like which is different, worse or
> better than digital?
> I do know that with an 11x14 print I scan see grain in the highlights with
> film and in the shadows its called rather "noise" in digital an image from
> a
> digital capture.
> Otherwise in the file sizes we are seeing here people are blowing smoke up
> our arses.
> If film looked better than digital than the top photographers would be
> shooting film. It doesn't; so we don't.
>
>
> - - from my iRabs.
> Mark Rabiner
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/
>
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// richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>


Replies: Reply from john at chiaroscuro.co.nz (John McMaster) ([Leica] Shocking: MM images do not look like film!)
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