On 14/10/2011 10:47 AM, P. J. Alling wrote:
That kind of depends on the film. I believe that slide film has a narrower DR than even straight from camera Jpegs. But I don't have any hard numbers on that.
Last time I checked (which was something like 20 years ago), slide film was 5-6 stops, colour print film was close to 10 stops (Reala), there was Agfa Ultra that was more like slide film that way, so there was variance, B&W film was similar to colour print film if you lab processed it, but it was possible to get 12-14 stops out of it. I think the K5 boasts a 14 stop DR at ISO 80, so it's going to be close to what film is able to do in a single exposure, and with HDR, that range can be opened up significantly, to over 20 stops if required. Consider though, that the vast majority of photographable scenes fall into a range of closer to 6-8 stops, and the need for really wide DR tends to be something more important to marketing people than photographers.
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