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Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2001 10:18 AM
Subject: Re: Prints From Negs or Slides
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> Given that *serious* print film shooters *do* take meticulous
care during
> exposures, and given the admitted advantages of greater
latitude inherent in
> print film, how would it be possible to obtain a print from a
slide that
> could ever approach the image quality and detail of a print
made by any of
> the master printmakers on our PDML?
Hi Mafud, welcome back.
Let me take a stab at the question. a lot of it comes down
to matching media to scene type. Let me use examples. Yesterday,
I took a drive in the country. It was an overcast day with lots
of snow on the ground. Absolute tonal range of this scene type
is about 2 stops. On neg film, any neg film, a picture made
under these conditions will look grey and muddy. However, if you
make the exposure on one of the shorter range slide films, and
print it on Ilfochrome, you have made a closer match between the
exposure range of the scene with the dynamic range of the media.
Here, slide film will give a more pleasing print.
Another example. You are trying to capture a couple of your
friends in a portrait. For example one of the subjects is of
African desent, and has very dark skin, the other is of Northere
European stock, and has a very pale complexion. Exposure of this
scene on slide film will pretty much be a disaster as the areas
of importance fall outside the range of the film; the dark
fleshtone will be lost in underexposure, the pale fleshtone lost
to over exposure. Here, a negative film will save the day.
So, there is no absolute with regard to choice of materials.
It comes down to the knowedgable photographer making intelligent
decisions about the choice of media used for the result desired.
William Robb
>
> Mafud
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