Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The limitation is with the negative and the information in it, right? If the enlarger lens cannot "read" the details in the negative because of underexposure or severe overexposure can a scanner do better? Poor technique is poor technique unless you completely bypass the negative and shoot on some medium that can hold 30 zones of information. Ray Dan Cardish wrote: > Excuse me while I play Devil's Advocate. Lets presume you do have a shot > of Tri-X taken in mid afternoon, that is next to impossible to print *in > the darkroom*. Is this not just a limitation of traditional prinring > techniques? Perhaps digital techniques would make the negative very > printable. What we call poor technique is relative to current practices. > Why not take those shots in midafternoon on tri-x? Why limit yourself, > just because some old fashioned obsolete technology won't handle it properly. > > Dan C. > > At 08:35 PM 04-05-00 +0800, ray tai wrote: > >Hello Dan, > > > >[snip] I have friends who would show me contact sheets of Tri-X shot in the > >middle of the afternoon with half the subject being the sky and they couldn't > >figure out why it has no tones. Try to print the sucker and you will quickly > >learn how to expose it in the first place. > > > >By the way should you choose to forgo the darkroom try Kodak CN400 which I > find > >to be exceptionally scan friendly. > > > >Regards, > > > >