Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/30

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Subject: Re: [Leica] RE: Scan's
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 17:19:45 -0700

Eric Welch wrote:

> Negative films can be worked up in Photoshop easier than slide films.
> Kodak's scanner does pretty good with Kodachrome when you use the latest
> driver. And the brilliance of slides on a projector screen cannot be
> matched by the web, but the glowing phosphor of a computer screen isn't
> that bad.

I think Ansel Adams wrote that the luminance ration on a projected slide
is 200/1, 
glossy print 50/1, 
mat print 10/1.
I wonder where a computer screen fits into that.
Mark