Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]2000-04-17-16:21:35 Martin Howard: > Another thought: I read in a review of the UMAX PowerLook III that it > doens't handle colour negative film as well as it handles the colour > reversal type (there where scans on the page to illustrate the concept -- > the difference was dramatic). Is this a common feature of scanners and > therefore one should shoot chromes rather than negs? I'm pretty sure that the most fundamental weakness in CCD (read: affordable; not the photomultiplier tubes in drum scanner) scanners is their ability to ``see into'' the densest areas of the medium being scanned. So do you want to lose shadow detail (chromes) or highlight detail (negs)? I understand (but will doubtless be corrected if wrong) that most people who scan as their primary use for film choose to work with negatives.