Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well if you shoot color slides and then you duplicate them..... most of the time they end up with too much contrast.... CDU II is good.... but it still picks up contrast. I personally prefer doing dupes off of non-Leica lenses. Some of the newer lower contrast slide films help the situation... But slide film is usually too contrasty to begin with unless you like shadow detail to drop off into the abyss. I had Canon 300 f/4L that had too much contrast for anything but gloomy overcast days..... I sold it. If you do color copy work.... or internegs.... or make 35mm slides or internegs off of x-rays; (the absolute worst) contrast is your enemy.. Not always of course as some old prints are a bit flat.... But normally this is one time when pre-flashing has practical value and a high contrast lens just aggravates the situation.... Duane Birkey HCJB World Radio Quito Ecuador Duane's Photographs of Ecuador http://duane_birkey.tripod.com