----- Original Message ----- From: "Kostas Kavoussanakis"
Subject: Re: Limiteds Question :) - THANKS GUYS AND GIRLS!!! :D
Sorry to insist. Is it less sharp on digital or is the micro contrast (don't understand that anyway) not as high?
I try not to work with scanned film.
Digital allows for some post processing that wet printing doesn't really do very well, such as softening overly sharp details, although I think that people tend to get carried away with it, and then skin tones start to take on that ugly polyethelyne look, where it is just too smooth to be real.
I coined the term micro cotrast, for lack of a better descriptive. The 77 seems to show more very slight tonal variation (read slight skin blemishes) than other lenses, and I think it does show up more on an optical print than on a digital capture.
Digital printing doesn't have the same depth of fine tonal scale that optical printing of a negative has.
William Robb
