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Film scanners?
On Thursday, April 20, 2017 at 7:05:34 PM UTC-4, nospam wrote:
In article , Bill W wrote: Thank you for your respect of the craft. But I don't find it hard (maybe because I don't use a "bathroom darkroom"!), and a well printed, mounted and framed enlargement gives me a sense of achievement. Fair enough, but it's not the process I disagree with, it's the claimed output quality of the process. same here. digital can do everything film can do and a whole lot more. Case in point, I happened to see yesterday a digital photo that the customer has requested be sent through the public release process to use it for marketing. I'll have to obfuscate the subject until it does get released, but suffice to day that from a camera technology standpoint, the result was a really nice image with good colors, good saturation levels, and obviously of high dynamic range, as the shadows were dark but not too terribly harsh, mids were excellent and the highlight was a bit overexposed, but in context was really an excellent job of not being blown out. Once the image is released, you'll better understand what I'm saying. The kicker to all of this was that it was an outdoor photo on a "Sunny 16" day, with zero artificial lighting ... and a shutter speed of 1mSec, If/when the image gets approved for public release, I'll provide a URL link. BUT...in any event, while I understand nospam's sentiment of "always better", this is really a fallacy which once one understands the base condition, not only is not actually true, but it can never be true. The base condition is two different systems...here, imaging technologies. That means that by definition, they respond differently to various stimuli. And it also means that the definition of "best" is a personal judgement, as generally derived from varying weighting factors on the different metrics. Since there must be differences, and since these differences are being quasi-quantified by opinion-driven metrics, what it really comes down to is that it always depends on the weighting values being assigned by the individual human ... which is what we commonly call a personal preference. TL;DR: "its a personal preference, and always has to be, and will be". -hh |
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