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Subject: [Leica] Bad Exposure or Something Else?
From: Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com (Frank Dernie)
Date: Tue Dec 7 00:17:31 2004
References: <410-220041216232113900@edge.net>

Beware of Gold 200 if you use a 4000 dpi Nikon scanner. Of all the 
films I have scanned it seems to suffer the most from what I am told is 
grain aliasing. The scans look very grainy for a 200 asa film.
Frank

On 6 Dec, 2004, at 23:21, Jim Nichols wrote:

> Richard,
>
> After similar disappointments, I settled on Kodak Gold 200, and it has
> served me well.  There should be a similar Professional Version rated 
> at
> 200, but I have not really pursued that route yet.
>
> Jim Nichols
> nicholsj@edge.net
>
>
>> [Original Message]
>> From: Richard S. Taylor <r.s.taylor@comcast.net>
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>> Date: 12/6/2004 1:04:35 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Bad Exposure or Something Else?
>>
>> John - Your "sinful" attempt to correct the image is certainly closer
>> to what I saw - and thanks you and to all the others who responded
>> with ideas and suggestions.
>>
>> What really bothers me about the photo (and about the dozen or so
>> others I took at the same time) is the blown out highlights.  I've
>> now looked at the negatives more carefully and the highlights are
>> badly blown out there, too.  (Which eliminates the scanning as an
>> issue.)  I think if the highlights weren't so badly blown it might
>> have been possible to make something of the picture.
>>
>> So, I think what I've learned is:
>>
>> 1. ASA 400 color negative film really isn't universal. I should have
>> used a longer-scale film, ASA 100 or so, in this situation.
>>
>> 2. Overexposure really isn't OK with color negative film (though is
>> far more forgiving than slide film).  I've always exposed for the
>> shadows and let the highlights take care of themselves.   That
>> obviously doesn't always work.
>>
>> 3. Photoshop can't fix everything.
>>
>> You are forgiven.  Your good works saved you.  Go and sin no more...
>> (unless that is, you want to try again to fix one of my miserable
>> attempts to commit photography, in which case, sin away.)
>>
>>> May God have mercy on my immortal soul. Is this more what you had in
> mind?
>>>
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album63/another_man_s_image
>>>
>>> John Collier
>>>
>>> On Dec 5, 2004, at 5:50 PM, Richard S. Taylor wrote:
>>>
>>>> As I turned onto Memorial Drive in Cambridge last week the
>>>> sycamores along the drive were glowing white-gold in the
>>>> mid-afternoon sunlight.  I quickly parked and took pictures.  The
>>>> results were disappointing to say the least.  I've posted one
>>>> example here:
>>>>
>>>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/PICKS/21_0021>
>>>>
>>>> Photographic qualities of the picture aside, I wonder if any of you
>>>> might have any thoughts on what I might have done to improve the
>>>> rendition of the glowing trees that I saw with my eyes.  There
>>>> seems to be an exposure issue here since the highlights look blown
>>>> out but would it have been better on a slower film, or is there a
>>>> scanning problem, or something else?
>>>>
>>>> This photo isn't even close to the image I had in my head.
>>>> Manipulation in Photoshop to darken the image overall helps but
>>>> isn't really the solution.  The posted picture is unmanipulated and
>>>> uncropped.
>>>
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>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Regards,
>>
>> Dick
>> Boston MA
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