Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/06/03

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Subject: [Leica] development for scanning
From: "charles walden" <charlie@highhill.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 17:08:39 -0400
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Tina

I know you have mentioned this capability of photoshop / scanners on a
couple of occasions and it made me wonder if using that technique would
affect how you develop your negatives.  Specifically, my understanding has
always been that film can capture a wider range of tones than paper, hence
the need to adjust (reduce) your development to compress the dynamics of
what the camera sees down to a range that can be printed on a reasonable
grade of paper.

But if the scanner can actually capture a wide dynamic range by scanning
twice, it seems like you would ideally develop negatives longer and with a
higher contrast so that you could extract the full range of what is possible
in the film and then compress it down in Photoshop.

Does this make sense?  Does anyone actually do it?  Or maybe my
understanding of film / development / scanning / printing is off?

I still print in the darkroom as opposed to digitally, but have begun to
give some thought to it after all the discussion I've read on the LUG.

thanks
charlie


- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Tina Manley" <images@InfoAve.Net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 3:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Gree Leafe, late summer


> At 02:11 PM 6/3/02 -0400, you wrote:
>
> >If anyone has technical suggestions regarding alternate films (T400CN
> >here) or exposure techniques that might have worked here, then I'm all
> >ears.  I very much want to perfect a technique for working in this sort
of
> >light.
> >
> >Chandos
>
> Chandos -
>
> You can extend the dynamic range by scanning once for highlights and once
> for shadows and combining the two scans.
>
> I like the photo the way it is, though.
>
> Tina
>
>
> Tina Manley, ASMP
> http://www.tinamanley.com
>
> images available from:
> http://www.pdiphotos.com
> http://www.mira.com
> http://www.agpix.com
> http://www.newscom.com
>
>
>
>
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Replies: Reply from Mark Rabiner <mark@markrabiner.com> (Re: [Leica] development for scanning)
In reply to: Message from Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca> (Re: [Leica] Gree Leafe, late summer)
Message from Chandos Michael Brown <cmbrow@wm.edu> ([Leica] Gree Leafe, late summer)
Message from Tina Manley <images@InfoAve.Net> (Re: [Leica] Gree Leafe, late summer)