Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 3/13/02 robsteve@hfx.andara.com wrote: >Austin: > >Who shoots colour negative film with a Leica? me > Erwin, in his books, > totally discounts the use of colour negative film. an excellent reason for using it! >It certainly is easier >to scan, but the slides produce better images if you have a scanner up to >the task. depends what you mean by 'better'. If you want shadow detail AND highlights, neg may be much better. >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 very much doubt it. The Dmax of a color print film is not that high. It is more likely to be a non-linearity in the negative color response or possibly some curiosity in the profile applied by the scanner. - -- John Brownlow http://www.pinkheadedbug.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html