I take it you never shot slide film, JCO. I did, and the dynamic range of the *istD was a welcome increase.
Jostein On 12/13/06, J. C. O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You may be able to undo the "knee" on > the film captures but its going to be > impossible to undo the clipping on > the digital capture when the dynamic > range of the scene exceeds the digital system's > (sensor) recording capability. > jco > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > graywolf > Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 11:21 AM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: The "Film Look" > > > Luckily we can adjust that in Photoshop. It does help some. > > > J. C. O'Connell wrote: > > But the "look" is similar. I forgot to > > post that in either of these cases > > the film grain is NOT an issue. Its more > > the tonal range captured and the look > > of the extreme highlights. Film captures > > more but the curves are not straight, > > there is a knee on the hightlights. Whereas > > digital can't capture as much range but there > > isnt a knee, its straight right up to > > the point of clipping... > > jco > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > > Of Jack Davis > > Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 9:15 PM > > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > Subject: RE: The "Film Look" > > > > > > I've had the same experience. Stills, by their nature, may lend > > themselves to more scrutiny. > > > > Jack > > --- "J. C. O'Connell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> My interpretation of the "film look" is like > >> watching a high quality movie ( 70mm print ) > >> vs. a high defintion live video broadcast > >> ( more like the "digital" look ). > >> jco > >> > >> > >> -- > >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >> PDML@pdml.net > >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > >> > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > __ > > ____________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. > > http://new.mail.yahoo.com > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net