Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/03/10

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Subject: [Leica] Future of film? Good news and realistic news...
From: feli2 at earthlink.net (Feli)
Date: Thu Mar 10 09:33:48 2005
References: <00b701c52590$355af940$6401a8c0@ccapr.com> <0d60929729cfa0bf5600a9c85e910e3d@mac.com>
 
On Mar 10, 2005, at 8:59 AM, Christopher Driggett wrote:

> B.D.,
>       Why is B&W digital not comparable to B&W film as digital color is?   
> The B&W from my Epson R-D1 looks great.  Are you referring to the 
> digital capture or output device? I have not printed digital B&W yet.
> Thanks,
> Chris

Here's one reason. Digital has about the same dynamic range as 
slidefilm, circa 5 stops.
Color and black and white negative films can have up to 10 stops of 
exposure range.

feli

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In reply to: Message from bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen) ([Leica] Future of film? Good news and realistic news...)
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