Re: Taking, Making, Creating Images

[Herb Chong]

only because there was such a large loss going from the original slide to 
any other format. direct positives like Cibachrome added contrast and you 
were stuck with its color renditions. copy slides at their best are good, 
but not great. scanning has its own problems, the most important of which 
was that a slide frequently would have more density than the scanner could 
deal with. you can tell by looking at a slide and the scan whether it was an 
accurate scan. you can't do it with negatives, yet a nice slow color 
negative film is arguably sharper under many conditions. it certainly has 
more dynamic range. when you can't fix it, feature it.

Herb...
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From: "Tom C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <pentax-discuss@pdml.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 5:06 PM
Subject: Re: Taking, Making, Creating Images


I understand what your saying, but RAW is also euphemistically referred to 
as a digital negative, and futher processing is implicit, where the same is 
not true of transparencies, in general.