you can profile a film and a digital camera and directly match the digital camera to the film's profile over a moderately wide number of conditions. this is most easily done in a studio situation where the lighting is highly controlled. where lighting is less controlled, it is more work. it may require multiple exposures of the same scene to reproduce the dynamic range of film with current SLR sensors, but by using the same technique, it is possible to comfortably exceed the dynamic range of any film. specialized large format digital camera backs exist that have more dynamic range than print film without the necessity of multiple exposures. adding grain back is trivial. so long as you are working within the resolution limits of your capture device, it's not a lot of work. some of these are plugins and some are just general tools that any professional image editor should have anyway. once you are happy with the resolution of your sensor, i don't see why anyone would want to limit themselves to only what film can do.
Herb... ----- Original Message ----- From: "ALan Abbott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2003 7:30 AM Subject: RE: What do you think? > I am sure I have missed out on the 'digital' conversations but apart > from spending a long time with Photoshop et al , how can I have the > characteristice of different films? > Does anyone sell'plug-in' for Photoshop etc that 'preset for say velvia > or Gold? > I do not mean this in a critical way but to me it is a major thing of > film I can change the atmoshpere of the pictures by changing films. Yet > I don't want to be spending hours 'charactorizing' shots in Photoshop.
