I was reffering to color or BW neg film. Can you get slides from digital files and are they any wider dynamic range than shooting slide film in the first place? If you dont really need slides, then there isnt much point in shooting slide film unless you really want a certain "look" not available in neg films IMHO... jco
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jostein Øksne Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 4:28 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: The "Film Look" 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 > >> [email protected] 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 > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
