Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Philippe, Sometimes you can get what is called grain aliasing. Simply the repeating pattern of the grain is at a frequency that is some multiple of the scanner frequency which can provide the illusion of grain. Maybe three years ago we had a long discussion of this; check the archives as it went on for a fair amount of time. Don don.dory@gmail.com On 1/12/06, Philippe Orlent <philippe.orlent@pandora.be> wrote: > > Haven't looked at the negatives with a magnifying glass to the > negatives, but it definitely shows up in the scan. > Is it possible that it scans what isn't there? > > > > > > Op 12-jan-06, om 19:54 heeft Don Dory het volgende geschreven: > > > Philippe, > > I like the image as a defining family record of mother and > > daughter. The > > wide view does indeed add to the information of place and possibly > > why. As > > to grain, I get almost grainless images using Acros and Xtol at 1:3. > > Effective film speed is between 100 and 125. Is the grain in the > > negative > > or does it show up in the scan? > > > > Don > > don.dory@gmail.com > > > > > > On 1/12/06, Philippe Orlent <philippe.orlent@pandora.be> wrote: > >> > >> So here we go. :-) > >> > >> Week 1 at > >> http://tinyurl.com/c6cps > >> > >> I quite like this one, and think that keeping the crop wide adds > >> content to the image. But I do have problems with the grain of the > >> photo. > >> Shot with a Yashica Electro GS wide open, on Fuji Acros rated at 100, > >> and developed with, yes, Microdol X 1+3 at 24?C (75?F) for 16.5 > >> minutes. (massive dev.chart indicates rating it at ISO 80, with a 1+3 > >> dev of 16 minutes) > >> So there should be less grain visible, no? > >> > >> Comments on the image, and suggestions for the technical question > >> very welcome. > >> > >> Thanks for looking, > >> Philippe > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >