Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/12/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> -- >> Regards, >> >> Dick >> Boston MA >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >