Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/06/27

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Subject: [Leica] Agfa Scala [wasn't Noctilux bokeh or decline of writing]
From: ruben at rhodos.dk (Ruben)
Date: Sun Jun 27 14:33:17 2004
References: <000001c45c47$9c0d0970$121afea9@Hausner><5.2.0.9.2.20040627105024.01635638@mail.infoave.net><3fba01c45c6d$86d0fb90$ee55fea9@Sander> <4cfa589b040627120444fd74cc@mail.gmail.com>

When shooting Scala in bright sunshine shoot it at iso 100 - when shooting
it in dull weather shoot it at iso 3-400 - there will not be noticable grain
difference.
Scanning Scala should be done on a high quality drum scanner or an Imacon -
I havent seen brilliant scans from Scala on cheap scanners.
We are still in the dark on the future on the Scala - pehaps it is
discontinued from 31-12-04 - The lab i Copehagen has just closed their Scala
processing down.
It is a film with such great qualities that price is less of an issue and
the bigger film format the better - panoramas with fuji 6 x 17 is
breathtaking but even at 24 x 36 it is a super film-.
Ruben

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Adam Bridge" <abridge@gmail.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 9:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Agfa Scala [wasn't Noctilux bokeh or decline of
writing]


> I can see that it must be quite challenging - but I loved your site.
> Some very fine images even if scanning them was awful. The strongest
> are, for me, the first few of the fishermen out over the water.
>
> What took you there?
>
> On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 19:38:15 +0200, Sander van Hulsenbeek
> <alex@vanhulsenbeek.com> wrote:
> >
> > Tina wrote:
> > > (it) doesn't scan well at all.
> >
> > Indeed: Scala is difficult to scan. To see what problems you get into,
> > please have a look at this small site I uploaded today just as an
> > illustration. Very contrasty, even too much for Vuescan.
> > Slides look good though in projection. But who uses that today?
> >
> > http://home.wxs.nl/~sanderva/Lanka/index.htm
> >
> > Sander van Hulsenbeek
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In reply to: Message from buzz.hausner at verizon.net (Buzz Hausner) ([Leica] Yeah, But Tina Really Knows What She's Doing!)
Message from images at InfoAve.Net (Tina Manley) ([Leica] Agfa Scala [wasn't Noctilux bokeh or decline of writing])
Message from alex at vanhulsenbeek.com (Sander van Hulsenbeek) ([Leica] Agfa Scala [wasn't Noctilux bokeh or decline of writing])
Message from abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge) ([Leica] Agfa Scala [wasn't Noctilux bokeh or decline of writing])