RE: filmscanners: Film Scanners and what they see.

[Rob Geraghty]

Frank wrote:
>What does it mean to say, "they scan a whole lot better than negs"? Do
you
>mean you don't have to fiddle with the controls as much to get a good image?

No, I mean they scan better.  The chemical structure of slide film causes
fewer problems with aliasing than with negs.

>Slides don't have the density range of negatives and are not as forgiving
>pushing the parameters around.

I presume you meant that slides have a greater density range than negs?
:-7

I personally find the grain in scanned negs ugly - even in Reala - and it's
frustrating that a neg which looks fine as a photographic print is really
hard to get to look as good as a scan.  Slides are much simpler to work
with, at least in my experience with the LS30.

Rob


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