Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/02

[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]

Subject: [Leica] Bryn Mawr, PA
From: robertmeier at usjet.net (Robert Meier)
Date: Mon Oct 2 12:18:58 2006
References: <C146DAA9.164F6%bd@bdcolenphoto.com>

B.D. -- He was comparing digital capture, just not the kind of digital 
capture you're talking about.  R.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "B. D. Colen" <bd@bdcolenphoto.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 2:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Bryn Mawr, PA


> I'm sure you realize, Phil, that the fact that your scans of your slides
> aren't up to the quality you see in your slides doesn't prove anything -
> except that your 4490 scanner (hardly the be-all and end-all in scanning)
> combined with your scanning skills can't produce scans that are the same 
> as
> what your eyes see in the slides. Before you can say that the "50 year old
> technology still trumps digital capture," perhaps you should compare 
> digital
> capture to the 50-year-old technology - because, of course, there is 
> nothing
> in your post about digital capture:
> Put a full-frame digital SLR - say the Canon EOS1DS MkII on a tripod, next
> to whatever film camera you're taking. Shoot the same scene, with the same
> lens, and equivalent exposures - after you've calibrated for the camera's
> sensor, make adjustments in Photoshop, because of course you'll be 
> shooting
> RAW and the image will need sharpening and the same kind of contrast
> adjustment the film gives the scene, and then begin to make comparisons.
>
> It's great that you're happy with the "50 year-old-technology;" but 
> please,
> let's talk real comparisons if you're going to make comparisons. ;-)
>
>
> On 10/2/06 2:47 PM, "Philip Forrest" <photo.forrest@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> Here are a few scans of some Velvia 100 I shot out in Bryn Mawr, PA 
>> earlier
>> this spring with Jim Shulman.  My Epson 4490 just doesn't have the 
>> dynamic
>> range of the chromes themselves.  I would have to do multiple scans 
>> weighted
>> towards each color channel in order to get the incredible amount of
>> saturation that the film shows.  One more reason why 50 year old 
>> technology
>> still trumps digital capture.  Not that I don't like digital, I just 
>> don't
>> love it like my Velvia.
>>
>>
>>
>> http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a335/PForrest/BrynMawr_04E.jpg
>>
>> http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a335/PForrest/BrynMawr_03E.jpg
>>
>> http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a335/PForrest/BrynMawr_02E.jpg
>>
>> http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a335/PForrest/BrynMawr_01E.jpg
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> 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
> 



Replies: Reply from bd at bdcolenphoto.com (B. D. Colen) ([Leica] Bryn Mawr, PA)
In reply to: Message from bd at bdcolenphoto.com (B. D. Colen) ([Leica] Bryn Mawr, PA)