Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/07

[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]

Subject: [Leica] Too much contrast....
From: "Duane Birkey" <dbirkey@uio.telconet.net>
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 22:34:06 -0500

Well if you shoot color slides and then you duplicate them..... most of the
time they end up with too much contrast.... CDU II is good.... but it still
picks up contrast.  I personally prefer doing dupes off of non-Leica lenses.

Some of the newer lower contrast slide films help the situation...  But
slide film is usually too contrasty to begin with unless you like shadow
detail to drop off into the abyss.  I had Canon 300 f/4L that had too much
contrast for anything but gloomy overcast days..... I sold it.

If you do color copy work.... or internegs.... or make 35mm slides or
internegs off of x-rays; (the absolute worst) contrast is your enemy..  Not
always of course as some old prints are a bit flat....  But normally this is
one time when pre-flashing has practical value and a high contrast lens just
aggravates the situation....

Duane Birkey
HCJB World Radio
Quito Ecuador
Duane's Photographs of Ecuador
http://duane_birkey.tripod.com