On 2/3/2016 2:01 PM, Bob W-PDML wrote:
On 3 Feb 2016, at 15:15, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote:
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I understand that properly exposed chromes are amazing, but I
never have understood the appeal of a chrome as the medium. Pass
the slide viewer... ooh! I realize that there was a time when
Cibachrome was a thing for getting impressive prints from
positives.
I used to shoot Kodachrome back in the day. When I went for my RPS
distinctions they projected them in a cinema to cinema screen size
(35mm is a cinema format) using the top-end Leitz projector onto a
top-end screen, and I can tell you that the experience for me was
stunning. Until then I never realised how good 35mm could be.
When I took some digital shots to another distinction day and they
were projected, I was deeply disappointed with how flat and meh they
looked. The evaluators told me that they recommend people to print
digital stuff rather than project it.
That was a few years ago. Nowadays with very large OLED monitors I
think it's likely that the best results would be to show them on a
good monitor; they're not yet cinema size, but I reckon in less than
10 years they will be.
B
To really understand the appeal of large format transparencies, you
probably need to actually see them on a light table. They have an impact
that mere words can't describe.
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