Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Austin: Who shoots colour negative film with a Leica? Erwin, in his books, totally discounts the use of colour negative film. It certainly is easier to scan, but the slides produce better images if you have a scanner up to the task. The page below has some basketball images I took and scanned about three years ago. All but two of the images were on E200 pushed to EI 320, the other two were on a Fuji 800 film. The ones on film are the two near the bottom of the page, just above the aerial shot. I think they were scanned using a Canoscan 2700, which had a Dmax of about 3. All the images would probably look better if I rescanned them on my Polaroid. http://home.istar.ca/~robsteve/photography/ciau.htm I have found pushed 800 fuji print film hard to scan sometimes. When I shoot hockey with it, the highlights and ice sometime have odd casts to it. I am convinced it is a Dmax and software problem caused by the dense parts of the negatives which would be the highlights and the white ice. I almost ordered the new 4000 Plus from B&H, but when I converted it to Canadian dollars (x 1.58), it was pretty expensive. I think I will live with my Sprintscan 35 Plus until the 4000 Plus gets a little cheaper. Regards, Robert At 08:48 PM 3/13/2002 -0500, Austin Franklin wrote: > > The obvious one is a > > Dmax of 4.2 on single pass scans. It is up from about 3.6. > >Just FYI, higher values of dMax, whether valid or not, are ONLY applicable >for positive film. Standard negative film (B&W or color) does not need a >dMax over 2.8. > >Austin > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html