Well since you are a "tinker" type I suggest you go out and take some pictures with a really good lens of a really high contrast scene using a DLSR and a wide range film and SLR and find out for yourself. If you do not have access to really good film printing, just inspect the negatives....
I have never read anywhere that digital can yet match the dynamic range of the widest range films. And this is all color of course, if you go BW and pull processing the range of film would be even greater.... JCO -----Original Message----- From: Shel Belinkoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 11:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: USAF target and resolution tests Well, John, it's time for another aspirin .... too many graphs and charts and logs of this and that. However, one paragraph stood out amongst all the techo talk: "Before I go any further I should point out that this test is only going to produce a theoretical result. Since I am testing film, the dynamic range that I will be calculating will be much higher than any figure normally quoted for film because very small changes will be detected. At some point these changes will become irrelevant to the appearance of the image but since this is a subjective judgement I'm going to leave it at the calculated value for now. I'll return to the subjective arguments later." Shel > From: J. C. O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: USAF target and resolution tests > > Here is a good page by a guy who ran tests. > http://www.path.unimelb.edu.au/~bernardk/tutorials/360/technical/hdri/ > > He puts the dymanic range of reala color > film at about 15 stops. So that is > dramatically better than 11 you state
