Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/10/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Don Dory wrote: > The good news is that the information is there, you just need to burn and > dodge to your hearts content. > :) > Don > don.dory@gmail.com Don, not sure I follow this. If the contrast in the original scene is below whatever threshold is required for differentiation by the emulsion then although **you** (or I or John) may see it the film won't - and if it isn't recorded by the emulsion you can't get it back by dodging. Look at: http://gallery.leica-users.org/album164/SouthBeachSunset20050810 there was plenty of info that I could resolve by eye - the film, even at 400ASA couldn't respond to it. The combination of eye and brain is a marvellous imaging device which has been worked on for maybe 2 million years or roughly ten thousand times longer than the camera. You can only enhance information which is in the neg and that has to be done carefully otherwise you can create artefacts. Do I misunderstand you? Peter Dzwig