Herb,
Thanks for the reply but perhaps I did not put it well. Yes it can
be done but I believe that there are a number of people that whilst
wanting the dif charactoristics of dif films are not prepared to spend
the time involved in 'learning how to do what you say in Photoshop. What
I would like (and I believe others and yes I know it is asking some one
else to do the work but hey that's joe public for you!) is some already
made profiles that I can just choose from a menu and decide for the
image to look like it was taken with say Kodak Gold or Velvia.
My father in law likes the 'qualities' of Kodak Gold style films and
would like a digital camera but does not want to get within a mile of
things like Photoshop! I wonder how many other people are like that
perhaps 'joe public' does not give a damm about things like this.I would
like that facility in a digital camera ('preset profiles' that mimic
certain films).
Alan
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From: Herb Chong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 25 December 2003 13:31
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: What do you think?
you can profile a film and a digital camera and directly match the
digital camera to the film's profile over a moderately wide number of
conditions. this is most easily done in a studio situation where the
lighting is highly controlled. where lighting is less controlled, it is
more work. it may require multiple exposures of the same scene to
reproduce the dynamic range of film with current SLR sensors, but by
using the same technique, it is possible to comfortably exceed the
dynamic range of any film. specialized large format digital camera backs
exist that have more dynamic range than print film without the necessity
of multiple exposures. adding grain back is trivial. so long as you are
working within the resolution limits of your capture device, it's not a
lot of work. some of these are plugins and some are just general tools
that any professional image editor should have anyway. once you are
happy with the resolution of your sensor, i don't see why anyone would
want to limit themselves to only what film can do.
Herb...
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From: "ALan Abbott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2003 7:30 AM
Subject: RE: What do you think?
> I am sure I have missed out on the 'digital' conversations but apart
> from spending a long time with Photoshop et al , how can I have the
> characteristice of different films? Does anyone sell'plug-in' for
> Photoshop etc that 'preset for say velvia or Gold?
> I do not mean this in a critical way but to me it is a major thing of
> film I can change the atmoshpere of the pictures by changing films.
Yet
> I don't want to be spending hours 'charactorizing' shots in Photoshop.
