Sounds like a great excuse to get a 645D!! Whatever works is great. Warren
<<Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:54:59 -0700 From: Larry Colen <[email protected]> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Scanning bit depth Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Sep 14, 2010, at 10:51 PM, Boris Liberman wrote: > On 9/14/2010 11:39 PM, P. J. Alling wrote: >> You've just discovered a big reason why people thought Digital was >> superior to film... Even before it was. Wet prints from good negatives >> always were better than scanned prints from those same negatives, at >> consumer prices. Good scanning is costly. > > Some years ago I checked drum scanning prices in one of the professional labs > in Tel Aviv. It is $25 per single frame and they warn you that the film may > get scratched in the process... It sound like what I'll need to do is get a 645D, a close up lens, a suitable negative mount and light source, then do HDR multiple exposure to extract the full range of tonality from the negatives, then write a filter that'll relinearize the non-linear response of film, to get the full dynamic range. > Boris . -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- Warren "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." --A. Einstein -- 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.
