Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric: As printed (scanned?) it has too many midtones. What you need is more shadow and possibly more highlight. Midtones are a relative word -- if you hit the shoulder of the film in terms of overexposure, then everything is a highlight (compared to the film base) and the result is that everything in the output is then a flat midtone. Sounds weird, but having a good tone range depends on differentials in the density of the neg. Neopan has quite a shoulder and it is actually a little better to err on the side of underexposure. I shoot a lot of Neopan 1600, but I am a bigger fan of processing TMX for the same effect at 400, because then you have an adequate margin with shutter speeds to prevent overexposure. http://www.dantestella.com/technical/tmx.html Dante > Dante: > >> The first one of these is the best, but the other two seem to be a little >> bit overexposed - when you give Neopan 1600 too much light, it starts acting >> like Tri-X, and the midtones mush together. Neopan wants less light for its >> theatrical effect. > > Do you think the other two would be better with more midtones? I was > actually going for that effect. So now the question isn't whether I > achieved it but whether or not it works for those images. What do you > think? > > > Eric > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - ------------ Dante Stella http://www.dantestella.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html