Alin, Thanks for the lesson. In viewing the image, I can see a softness on the edge of the mountain, especially near the sun. Do you have any of the Gold shots for comparison?
I'll go back through my shots (lots of Bryce Canyon) and look for similar problems and let you know what I find out. BTW, where did you learn about anti-halation effects and how to spot them? Thanks, Bruce Tuesday, April 30, 2002, 9:13:11 AM, you wrote: AF> Hi Bruce, AF> It's from my own experience (I never speak on this list otherwise AF> without an explicit statement). I do most of my photography in the AF> high mountains and it's not rare that I have to deal with extreme AF> contrasts. In my quest of a film with good saturation yet capable AF> of an acceptable tonal range I gave Optima II 100 a try. I shot AF> several rolls in a hike during last year springtime and I was very AF> upset with its halation problems that compromised the apparent AF> sharpness. It looked far worse than the Gold 100 I had in the camera AF> before loading Optima. Its great colours only made for bitter AF> regrets. Unfortunately I haven't scanned the biggest offenders, but AF> in order to see a sample of local halation you may look for the sky AF> line in the following shot (be warned it has 258 KB): AF> http://213.157.187.142/esf2/temp/ApusBucsoi.jpg AF> Anyway, I don't want to be misunderstood: I find Optima II delivers AF> great colours within a pretty long tonal range, but sometimes AF> sharpness can be altered by local high contrasts. AF> Servus, Alin BD>> I'm curious to know how you found that out. Is it due to what you BD>> have seen in your own images or was that information available BD>> somewhere? I realize that it is hard to tell in small scans the BD>> problem you are describing, but I haven't really noticed it in my BD>> shots. BD>> Do you have some comparisons so that I would recognize the issue in my BD>> own images? Could you show us the images that were unsatisfatory and BD>> caused you to quit using this film? I'm really curious because I am BD>> having great results with this film. AF> - AF> This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, AF> go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to AF> visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - 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 .
