Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/06/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]mark / tina thanks for the comments - I wasn't necessarily thinking to totally cook the negs, but maybe just up the general contrast by a grade or two, bounded I suppose by staying within the range tha the scanner can resolve. That being said, I don't have a lot of time for experimentation (especially of the painful "changing development time" sort), so I'll stick to what's always worked for me in the darkroom. charlie - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tina Manley" <images@InfoAve.Net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 5:40 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] development for scanning > 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 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html