OK, here are a few questions for the digital gurus on the list: It's been stated here, sometimes quite emphatically, that the dynamic range available to film is 4.0 - maybe that's a particular type of film, like slides. The specs on a couple of well regarded scanners claim a dynamic range of 4.2 and 4.8.
So, are the published scanner figures accurate, or just advertising nonsense, and how can a poor boy tell for sure? If film only has a dynamic range of 4.0, what would the benefit be to having a scanner with a dynamic range greater than that? Is there an advantage to having a scanner with a greater dynamic range than the film, regardless of the films dynamic range? Is B&W negative film different from slides and color negative film wrt its potential dynamic range? I suspect it's quite a bit different than slide film in offering a greater range, but what about color neg? -- Shel Belinkoff mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~belinkoff/ - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
