----- Original Message ----- From: "Herb Chong" Subject: Re: Show and Tell - AF 50mm f1.7...
> i said once that if you had film with 10 stops dynamic range, you could > shoot a lot of great landscape and nature shots at high noon on a sunny day > and was thoroughly ridiculed for it. now that i have a set of Photoshop > filters for automatically layering exposures, i have been shooting 6 stop > scales for a total range of 10-11 stops on my digital cameras and taking > pictures of deep shadow to full sunlight. it opens a lot of possibilities of > getting good landscape and nature shots in the middle of the day. the > limitations of slide film have forced landscape and photographers into early > morning/evening, and overcast day photographers. there are a whole lot of > other days in the year too. gotta think out of the box. I have tried this technique also with great success. I have found that sometimes the best light is straight overhead, and a longer range film would be nice. There isn't a film made that won't have problems securing a 10 stop range with printable results. William Robb
