[Leica] My father, rescanned

[pklein at 2alpha.net (Peter Klein)]

Thanks for the comments, Chandos.  You are so right about the lighting, but 
it was what it was.  Your comment got me to thinking that judicious fill 
flash might actually perserve the spirit of available light in those 
circumstances.
:-)

Sal DiMarco made an interesting comment to me in Portland a couple of years 
ago.  We were talking about superspeed lenses.  Sal said that if one was 
good with flash or other auxiliary light sources, it was possible to make 
things look like available light, while using narrower apertures that were 
sharper and (in his view) better looking.   He had the idea of doing a 
"point-counterpoint" session with Ted Grant, at a future LHSA meeting.  Ted 
would show Noctilux pictures, and Sal would show how he could get the same 
effect with judicious lighting tricks.  It would have been fun.

Remember Jane Bown's environmental portrait trick?   Carry a couple of 150 
watt light bulbs in her purse and switch them into the available lamps.

--Peter


At 04:00 AM 2/1/05 -0800, Chandos wrote:
>  don't recall seeing this before, Peter.  The FS-4000 is incomparably
>superior to the commercial scan; even so, I look at an image like this
>and curse the culture that worships overhead lighting: flat,
>remorseless, and utterly indifferent.  We all look like the pickled
>frogs we once spiked to the wax matrix of dissecting trays.
>
>Imagine this gesture in the oblique light of a north facing window.
>
>Cheers!
>
>Chandos
>
>-----Original Message-----
>Peter Klein wrote:
>A local camera shop developed the negs in Xtol and scanned them on a
>Noritsu scanner at 1544x1042. Like all photofinishers, they juice up the
>contrast a bit too much on the scanner.  I rescanned the Tri-X neg on my
>Canon FS-4000.  While I was at it, I posted a comparison between the two
>scans.  There are two pictures at standard Web-page resolution, and two
>little snippets at 1:1, the Noritsu enlarged to a similar size.  M6TTL,
>50/1.5 Nokton, probably wide open at 1/60.
>
>http://users.2alpha.com/~pklein/family/06Milt.htm