Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/06/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 05:08 PM 6/3/02 -0400, you wrote: >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. I'm not sure. You want to be able to hold the details in the highlights and shadows. It's true that the film has more detail than you can get in the wet darkroom but it is still possible to blow-out highlights or have dense, unreadable shadows that even the scanner can't pull out if the contrast is too high. I haven't changed the way I develop my negatives except to change to XTol when it came out. I'm very pleased with the results I'm getting from normal negatives and the LS-4000. Most of my negatives scan fine with one scan. It's only ones with an extreme difference in highlights and shadows that benefit from the two scans combined. 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 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html