On 4 Nov 2004 at 18:15, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > Hi Paul, > > I can't help but wonder how photographers made photos under similar > circumstances before the advent of digital.
The key is the use for which the images are destined. I think you'd find that if you speak to anyone who has been in the design/advertising/publishing business for some years direct digital image capture has changed thins a whole lot. Colour consistency used to be a real problem, publishers were at the mercy of their pre-press bureau to turn out images with consistent characteristics from a multitude of sources. Many things (colour constancy foremost) are much better now and it shows in most publications. The direct comparison would be if film shooters shot a colour reference as they moved to alternate light sources and a profile was built for each lighting change. Then the calibration profiles would need to be applied to the appropriate images during scanning and post processing. Virtually any digital camera offers this type of precision for each and every shot. Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
