At 16:09 15/01/2001 -0600, you wrote:
>What you say is more or less the case. I do not think it is possible to
>OPTIMIZE any given film emulsion so as to meet the necessary criteria and
>needs of both digital and traditional. What is being done now is an attempt
>to reach a compromise in the areas of grain structure, dye cloud structure,
>contrast range, and shadow denisties so that the films like Supra will be
>usable and acceptible to both classes of users. I personally do not think
>that such compromises at this stage involve changing the orange masking in
>any way. If this does take place, it will be when the digital scanning
>market is large enough to support a dedicated scanner film optimized
>exclusively for digital scanning with no conern for traditional chemical
>printing; only then will we see films for scanning and films for traditional
>printing IMO.
that's exactly the case.
>"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow
>in Australia".
