Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Your results may vary a lot, depending on your scanner and such. The Kodak C41 B&W scans great with the Nikon Coolscan 5000ED, traditional film is treated better with scanners that have a neon light source - I think Minolta made a film scanner like that. Flatbed scanners have a neon light source. You really have to try it for yourself because equipment varies from photographer to photographer... All the best from the south of France! Tarek ------------------------------------------------- Tarek Charara <http://www.pix-that-stimulate.com> NO ARCHIVE Le 30 mars 10 ? 15:53, Vince Passaro a ?crit : > Henning, > Thanks. You'll see I told off old Steve about his merde on the LUG > thing. > On the contrast front I was talking results after scanning. I take the > images for processing and scanning. And my sense of the Ilford was, > to put > it in my terms which are not perhaps comprehensible -- but > everything tended > to look "grayed out." > > But who can tell what's the processing mistake, what's the scanning > mistake, > what's the photographer's mistake? I mean, you could probably tell. > But I > couldn't. > > Meanwhile someone else said the Kodak has less contrast than Ilford, > not > more. > > VMany thankis, again, > > V > > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:33 AM, Henning Wulff <henningw at archiphoto.com > >wrote: > >> At 11:32 PM -0400 3/29/10, Vince Passaro wrote: >> >>> Nah you misunderstood: "that's why I'm asking people's >>> opinion's...." >>> about >>> which one they think is best. The Kodak or the Ilford. Kodak seems >>> to be >>> winning which was my experience. The Ilford was too low contrast >>> in my >>> experience. >>> >>> >> >> >> If you won't develop Tri-X then I take it you don't do enlarging. >> In that >> case low contrast is your friend, as scanners are much more >> forgiving of low >> contrast than medium or high contrast. >> >> I've used various C41 films; Kodak (various flavours), Ilford XP >> and XP2 >> and Agfa's. All work fine for scanning. For printing I like the >> Ilford XP2 >> best if I do it myself. Photofinishers generally like the Kodak films >> better. >> >> >> -- >> >> * Henning J. Wulff >> /|\ Wulff Photography & Design >> /###\ mailto:henningw at archiphoto.com >> |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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