DYNAMIC RANGE LOVES THE 40D!

Annika1980 wrote:
Here's a full-sized crop of an image I took at the polo match with the
40D.

http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/103209055/original

This image was just as shot and had no post-processing applied to it
other than cropping.
Note that the highlights aren't blown and the shadows have little
detail, but are not quite down to true black.

I'd like to see the film that could give similar results.

I'd like to see a posted photo similar to the color negative from
yesterday v. the Canon.

Really, that's the only way to compare.


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Scott W wrote,on my timestamp of 17/09/2008 8:04 AM:

Roger Clark did a comparison some time ago
http://www.clarkvision.com/imagedeta...ge2/index.html

Funny how that site is "good" to demonstrate
"bad film" but is "bad" to demonstrate digital
weak points...

Had he over exposed the film he might be gotten more shadow detail,
but for a normal exposer
film, at least Kodak Royal Gold 200, has very poor range in the
shadows.

That is indeed true. And also of most of the
"comparisons" in most of the sites out the
made years ago, with bad scanning technique of bad
film and badly exposed images. Not surprising that
it looks so bad overall...

Slide film is of course much worse yet.

Actually, it isn't.

Scott W wrote,on my timestamp of 17/09/2008 4:11 PM:

I am not sure what you are thinking here, slide film has maybe 5 stops
of range, I don't know of any negative film that is that narrow. The
output of some slide film is on the order of 10 stops, because it is
so high in contrast, but the capture range is very small.

It can compess 10 EIs into 6-7 in the latest emulsions - that
"5 stops" nonsense is just urban myth based on info gathered
8 years ago.
More than enough to do anything you might like with
a colour monitor or printer that can hardly do 6 EIs
in 99% of the cases.

Annika1980 wrote,on my timestamp of 18/09/2008 1:24 AM:
On Sep 17, 2:11 am, Scott W wrote:
Slide film is of course much worse yet.
Actually, it isn't
I am not sure what you are thinking here,


Dude, you're talking to Noons. Thinking doesn't enter into it.

"of course much worse" is not a universal truth,
it's just parroting urban myths. I prefer facts.
You should try looking at those instead of believing
everything you find on the net.
Do you believe this guy:
http://fakechuckwestfall.wordpress.com/
as well?
I don't, but he's funny.