Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Usually the opposite is true since slide film has less dynamic range than neg.! Al Stegmeyer UPSTREAM PHOTOGRAPHY & www.upstrap.com a non-slip camera strap guaranteed to stay on your shoulder! - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Moore" <jbm@oven.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 4:10 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Colour negative film > 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.