Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The other thing to consider is the calibration of printer and screen, take a look at Spyder and Gretag-Macbeth on the web, I use a Spyder 2 and was amazed at what a difference calibration makes to my prints. http://www.normankoren.com/makingfineprints1A.html this site says a lot about what you have to look out for. cheers Douglas Douglas Herr wrote: >on 1/23/06 4:40 AM, Stein Rune Johansen at sterujo@online.no wrote: > > > >>Hello! >>Is there someone outhere having experience with prints from colorpositiv >>film >>compared to prints from colornegative film. I am only using corlornegative >>film, but sometimes get disappointed with the colorsaturation in the >>prints. >>Will prints from ex. Velvia 50 be more saturated? >> >>Stein Rune Johansen >> >> >> > >It depends on how the prints are made. If your film is scanned and printed >digitally numeraous adjustments can be made to the imge data before >printing, bearing in mind the image properties lost in gaining saturation. > >If you increase saturation by switching to Velvia you will probably >sacrifice some shadow or highlight detail, or both, because of Velvia's more >limited exposure latitude. Likewise, increasing saturation in an >image-editing program like Photoshop probably will sacrifice some tonal >gradation. > >I find that for the best combination of saturation and tonal gradation for a >particular film you should use a camera lens that produces a minimum of >flare. Even when bright lights are not within the picture area, light >reflecting off the lens surfaces can reduce the color saturation. In some >lenses this effect is negligible and in other lenses the difference is >significant. > >As a rule of thumb a lens with more air/glass surfaces will be more likely >to flare than one with fewer, everthing else being equal (which they rarely >are). Also a multi-coated lens is less likely to flare than an older >single-coated or uncoated lens. There are exceptions to this rule-of-thumb >and neither multi-coating nor fewer air/glass surfaces is a universal >panacea, but theses are things optical engineers consider when designing a >lens. Always use an appropriate lens hood to minimize stray light's >influence on your pictures. > >Doug Herr >Birdman of Sacramento >http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > >