Re: [hugin-ptx] Film

2010-09-25 Thread Yuval Levy
On September 24, 2010 01:30:34 pm Hal V. Engel wrote: for me the real bummer with slide film is that Kodachrome is no longer available and the last place that processed it just closed down a few months ago. Bummer indeed. Maybe it will be saved like Polaroid. Or maybe Kodak will see the

Re: [hugin-ptx] Film

2010-09-24 Thread Yuval Levy
Thanks, Carl. On September 24, 2010 01:46:08 am Carl von Einem wrote: Eric is right, it's about the dynamic range of negatives vs. positive You taught me sonething. I always thought they had the same characteristics... To put it the other way round: is there a reason why you would prefer

Re: [hugin-ptx] Film

2010-09-24 Thread Carl von Einem
Projection is still best with slides, true. Have to visit Rollei at the Photokina on Saturday :-) Cheers, Carl Yuval Levy schrieb am 24.09.10 13:35: Thanks, Carl. On September 24, 2010 01:46:08 am Carl von Einem wrote: Eric is right, it's about the dynamic range of negatives vs. positive

Re: [hugin-ptx] Film

2010-09-24 Thread Hal V. Engel
On Friday, September 24, 2010 04:35:43 am Yuval Levy wrote: Thanks, Carl. On September 24, 2010 01:46:08 am Carl von Einem wrote: Eric is right, it's about the dynamic range of negatives vs. positive You taught me sonething. I always thought they had the same characteristics... Slide

Re: [hugin-ptx] Film

2010-09-23 Thread Carl von Einem
If you want to stitch scans you also have to optimize for g and t (hor. and vert. shear). Shoot color negative film and scan the frames with 16 bit. My workflow with a Nikon Super Coolscan 4000 (and the SA-30 film roll feeder) includes SilverFast (silverfast.com) scan software, but you

RE: [hugin-ptx] Film

2010-09-23 Thread Dale Beams
I grew up with a [Minolta SRT101] Camera, a [MC Rokkor - PF 1:14] Lens and a [MC Tele Rokkor - PF 1:28] Telephoto Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 12:26:32 +0200 From: c...@einem.net To: hugin-ptx@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [hugin-ptx] Film If you want

Re: [hugin-ptx] Film

2010-09-23 Thread Yuval Levy
On September 23, 2010 06:26:32 am Carl von Einem wrote: Shoot color negative film and scan the frames with 16 bit. any reason why you recommend color negative as opposed to slides? try VueScan (hamrick.com) highly recommended. It has given new life to my old Nikon CoolScan LS30 (Nikon

Re: [hugin-ptx] Film

2010-09-23 Thread Carl von Einem
Hi Yuv, Eric is right, it's about the dynamic range of negatives vs. positive slide film. It's so much easier to already get washed out lights while shooting a scene with slide film. I find it also really easy to scan negatives, but I still have to redo some panoramas from 1996, a couple of