Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Alastair Firkin wrote: > This is the sort of comment I want to hear. It would seem that you can > do adequate work with scanning negatives > There is literally an entire industry built around scanning negatives -- and yes the quality is quite high. Nowadays filmmakers shoot film, and then digitize to edit, and then sometimes physically splice the resultant film based on the digital edits. Film still has a higher density range (bit depth) than consumer digital sensors. The color gamut of Ektachrome is unmatched by any digital camera I am aware of. I personally use a combined film/digital workflow. I am investigating the possibility of chucking the enlarger altogether by printing 8x10 negatives on my Epson and then contact printing them to Azo or Pt/Pd (for example). I can't get an inkjet black to be anything near the density of an Azo black. On the other hand, printing B/W with carbon based inkjet looks really fantastic when the photo doesn't have many deep blacks. These inks are probably way more archival than silver processes. Jonathan