----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Lacus" Subject: Re: beauty shot: Pentax K10D- 17mm lenses are out there
>> I'd have to dig out my charts from when I was learning the Zone System, >> but >> my recollection is that I was never able to get more than 9-10 stops out >> of >> B&W film without going to very exotic processing methods. >> My experience working as a QC technician in the photo lab industry >> indicated >> to me that print film, when measured on a densitometer, was incapable of >> givng more than 7-8 stops of dynamic range. > > which still by far exceeds capabilities of any paper I guess... This is what dodging and burning (that's the classic way to compress a tonal range to fit the media) is meant for. With scanning, the approach is different, and can include multiple passes over the scanner to accomodate deficiencies in the scanner's dynamic range. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
