Hello people,
I have this question:
Should a white balanced vuescan scan with film setting generic of Ilford XP2
(a monochromatic film) look black and white?
I ask this because the first time I used this film I got sepia toned prints
back from the lab. The other times they were greenish or
Geoff wrote:
I'm not sure how labs manage to scratch negs so badly!
Ever watched how they throw them around before they sleeve them?
Rob
At risk of starting World War 3, what is the resolution of Chemical
Film?
The National Geographic magazine used to ask for any photos to be
submitted using Kodachrome Film, so let's say Kodachrome 64 as a good
all round film. I've tried searching for the answer but haven't found
'a number'.
I
Chris asks ...
... what is the resolution of Chemical Film?
The National Geographic magazine used to ask for any photos to be
submitted using Kodachrome Film, so let's say Kodachrome 64
as a good all round film.
...
A number I've read, which seems to be a near concensus,
is
A very brief and simple answer to your inquiry to the initial question is
yes they should look black and white. The reasons the prints from the
processor typically do not come out black and white is because the prints
usually are printed on a dye based color photographic paper base which
usually
Chris,
It does seem to be a hot topic but I would like to share my experience and
observations on this subject. I have been involved in a number of studies
regarding resolution as it applies to process cameras, still, motion
picture, and television (including HDTV).
Film resolution is only one
Look at
http://www.kodak.com/cluster/global/en/professional/support/techPubs/e55/e55.shtml#03
en go to the bottom of the document for the buttons of the modulation transfer
curves
There is also a pdf document available on this kodak site.
Meino
Chris McBrien wrote:
At risk of starting
That so-called resizing is nothing of the kind!
All it does is change the dpi figure in the file, the picture content is
completely unchanged.
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Laurie Solomon) wrote:
Resizing in Photoshop is not interpolation and does not use Bicubic,
The only dimensions that matter are the number of pixels. The dpi and
hence the "physical dimensions" are utterly meaningless.
That's erroneous to say they are 'utterly meaningless'. They CLEARLY are
utterly meaningFUL to the printer driver, and, along with the xy number of
pixels,
Meino writes ...
Look at
http://www.kodak.com/cluster/global/en/professional/
support/techPubs/e55/e55.shtml#03
go to the bottom of the document for the buttons of
the modulation transfer curves.
Such curves do eliminate subjective interpretation, but it's still
necessary to
I am afraid that once again you do not appear to be on the same page as the
other discussants. As I remember the discussion between Frank and myself,
it firstly was not restricted to the effects of resizing/rescalling without
resampling of images in Photoshop on the monitor display of those
I am not sure we are engaged in the smae conversation; but since you appear
to be responding to something I said and I was in the conversation first, I
am going to assume that my interpretation of the original conversation prior
to your entering into it is the correct one. In that conversation,
Hi Geoff
Geoff Stafford wrote:
I have an Acer ScanWit 2720S.
Recently I took some 2700 dpi scans (2550x3720) on a CD into
Boots the Chemists and had prints made. Their system feeds the
image files straight into the mini-lab.
The results from negs or slides are superb,
That's great to
I believe that XP2 film can be processed C-41 like color neg and is often
printed on color paper. The green or brown or blue print color is due to
the processor operator's sense of neutral color balance. If you scan them
as grey scale you should get a neutral bw image. If you scan as rgb
Am I being naive here or does the settings for colour film take into
account, neutralizing the orange mask on the film base, and the settings for
B/W neg only have to adjust the gamma, to correct for the film base, hence
the dark reds, when printing colour neg onto B/W paper because of the high
The settings for color negative film usually involve a list of different
film manufacturers ( if not film types as well) wherein each of the listed
items accounts for the orange mask used by that brand of film or film type
there is some variation in shades of orange of the mask depending on the
Jerry wrote:
Which of the next 2 procedures results in more loss of picture quality?
1. Downsize an image (w.r.t. number of pixels) using bicubic resampling,
then go from 16 bit / pixel to 8 bit / pixel.
2. Go from 16 bit / pixel to 8 bit / pixel, then downsize an image (w.r.t.
number of pixels)
Chris McBrien wrote:
At risk of starting World War 3, what is the resolution of Chemical
Film?
The National Geographic magazine used to ask for any photos to be
submitted using Kodachrome Film, so let's say Kodachrome 64 as a good
all round film. I've tried searching for the answer
Rob Geraghty wrote:
Geoff wrote:
I'm not sure how labs manage to scratch negs so badly!
Ever watched how they throw them around before they sleeve them?
Rob
Many labs have a very bad policy with film handling. The majority of
people do not order reprints, and since the film is
Austin Franklin wrote:
The only dimensions that matter are the number of pixels. The dpi and
hence the "physical dimensions" are utterly meaningless.
That's erroneous to say they are 'utterly meaningless'. They CLEARLY are
utterly meaningFUL to the printer driver, and, along with the
Rob Geraghty wrote:
Geoff wrote:
I'm not sure how labs manage to scratch negs so badly!
Ever watched how they throw them around before they sleeve them?
Rob
Many labs have a very bad policy with film handling. The majority of
people do not order reprints, and since the film is
HI Jerry,
I'm sorry that I not going ton try to answer you earlier question
concerning which procedure creates less loss (downsampling, then
lowering bit depth or the other way around) because it will probably
invoke too much back and forth conjecture based upon theoretical
grounds, when
Art wrote:
Many labs have a very bad policy with film handling. The majority of
people do not order reprints, and since the film is usually printed
before it is cut and sleeved, a lot of the scratches are put on after
the printer is done with them, or by the automated film gate (again,
after the
I am trying to say, because colour neg films all have different types of
orange base fog, the various software have to make colour adjustments to
correct for this, B/W NEG has no such colour in its base, and if you tell
the software, that B/W neg is a colour film, it will correct for the orange
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