David Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm curious about your industrial night scenes. What about them makes > them nearly impossible with digital? This is an honest question. I've > found digital's low-light capability to be better than the film I've > used.
The problem is with the lights rather than the shadows. This one, for instance: http://www.photosight.ru/photo.php?photoid=1085361&ref=author It takes medium format to deal with those buggers up on the masts. Even 35 mm analog produces hopelessly flared-out highlights with stars around them which might be fun on an xmas card but are rather annoying in anything else. This here... http://www.photosight.ru/photo.php?photoid=1145051&ref=author ...is on 35 mm and it already shows a lot of what I call the xmas card effect around the lights. Other than using elaborate DRI (and that still won't get rid of the stars) there's only one way: the biggest neg format you can muster, at least 645, and a modern colour negative film. Something like Portra or Optima where you literally have to burn holes into the emulsion before they'll top out in the highlights. Won't even work with slide film. Ralf -- Ralf R. Radermacher - DL9KCG - Köln/Cologne, Germany private homepage: http://www.fotoralf.de manual cameras and photo galleries - updated Jan. 10, 2005 Contarex - Kiev 60 - Horizon 202 - P6 mount lenses
