Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/03/30

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Slide vs.Print film for Scanning
From: Five Senses Productions <fls@5senses.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 13:40:32 -0800

Thanks for the info......I will be scanning a bunch of Royal Gold 25
negs tomorrow to see if there is a big difference.

At 07:49 PM 3/29/98 -0500, TEAShea wrote:
><< I am just asking LUGgers if they have any  experience in comparing the
>quality of enlargements from both types of film   snip >>
>
>
>If you want to make enlargements, print film is better than slide film.
>Negative film contains more "information" than slide film and handles
contrast
>better for enlargements.  Good enlargments from a slide generally require the
>use of an internegative (4" x 5") is best.  This is to control contrast.
>There are some papers that allow making an enlargment directly from the
slide,
>but the quality is not very good because of the contrast issue.  The
Cibachome
>process also makes prints directly from slides but the colors are very
>saturated and the prints are expensive.
>
>The best way to make prints is to use print film.  
>
>Tom Shea
> 


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