Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/10/27
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At 08:52 AM, you wrote:
>For me another reason is the direct possibility of creating a black&white
>negative or a color separation from a slide, so there is no need (or better:
>there is not always a need) for using two different films .
But a negative from a slide is adding a generation to the process, and a
significant reduction in quality. Contrast alone is going to become
objectionable in most cases. Better to make a black and white print from a
color negative.
A separation is another thing. I have always preferred to use slide film
for reproduction, though with the newest generation of slide/neg scanners
(we have a Kodak 2035 at work - $8,000) a good scanner operate can make
better prints from negatives than slides. But there's the rub. You have to
be a good scanner operator and be using a high-end scanner. But it's a moot
point for me now that I'm going digital.
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Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO
http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch
Lives of great men all remind us,
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.
-H.W. Longfellow