Over the past several years I've scanned and reviewed earlier scanned images I've made. There is something about them that's undefinable and draws me to them over my digitally captured images.
I can't say what it is. Possibly a sense of being closer to reality, in the same vein that I recognize an analog record as sounding better than a CD? Possibly the smoothness of film across the dynamic range? I don't know. Unless I were able to take side-by-side film vs. digitally captured images in the same format, using the same lens, it would be difficult to make an objective comparison. So subjectively, as far as image quality is concerned, I'm tending to lean towards film... though it's obviously a dead end. I hope to scan quite a number of film images captured from the past ten years and subjectively, of course, compare them to my overall sense of digitally captured images. Partially responsible for making me think along these lines, is a recent advert from Alien Skin Exposure 2, a film simulator plug-in. http://tinyurl.com/yz2zybg Does anyone have any experience with it? Tom C. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
