Bill Lang wrote: > > Night shot effects aside - it seems to me that Kodachrome 200 would be > more 'forgiving' for daylight shots than Kodachrome 25 - or am I getting > print and slide film performance confused? >
Yep...my experience is that K-200 (which I love for a variety of reasons) is not forgiving at all when it comes to exposure. You gotta be within a third of a stop either way or you can toss the slides into file 13. This film, BTW, has "saved" many a scene for me...great pictures made when light is marginal and other shooters have chosen to whine and stay in the car. I once over-exposed some K25 roster shots of a Santa Fe GP50 by about a stop-and-a-third and they looked fine. I know virtually nothing about electronic manipulation of scanned photos. However, just keep in mind, from the video side of the world (which I do professionally) that one cannot accurately judge the quality of a video shot (exposure, color rendition) without a waveform monitor/vectorscope, and (important for non-technical people) a properly adjusted monitor (TV). In most cases, "properly adjusted" simply means tweaking the display using color bars. Would suspect there is some equal to this in the world of digital photos and their manipulation... --DRB -> SPORRS: 'Serious Photographers Of Railroad Related Subjects' -> Web Site: http://www.anet-stl.com/acphotog/sporrs/ -> Message © 1998 SPORRS® - All Rights Reserved
