I have read a lot of discussion on this, and I think a lot of you are
missing some pretty important points.
The zone system is a very good way of understanding the way film behaves.
And you have to evaluate it in terms of the beginning and terminal media.
In the case of B&W or color negatives, it
I have made pleasing scans of TRI-X negatives. I compared the resulting
inkjet prints with the original silver prints, and they were at least as
good, and in some instances better. I was so convinced by the quality, that
I am trying to sell off my darkroom equipment.
I use VueScan (no idea what
I think the brightness range of transparency films has improved a lot over
that. 15 years ago, I ran some zone type tests with transparency
(EXTACHROME should any one care). Essentially, I metered a evenly lit,
evenly toned surface ( a gray garage door for me back then). The meter
wants to repr
If this is the case, it is an about face for KODAK. They use to push their
curved field lenses, and then 8 years ago (it might be longer) they changed
to flat field lenses, saying that with plastic mounts and improvements in
cardboad mounts, flat field lenses were the way to go. My Carousel came
I like the idea of 1 set of tabs, the split always seemed unnatural to me.
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> I'm curious what people think of the idea of ha
What about subtle rotation of the crop box in the scan window? If VueScan
currently does this, then I don't know how to use it. I have had a few
instance of the slide being a little "off", where I think "off" is on the
order of + or - 5 degrees.
I have thousands of B&W negatives that I labeled the margins with using
sharpy markers over the last 25 years. The negatives are just fine. There
is even less on a CD-R to contaminate, as the metal surface and die layer
are encased. My issue with scribing, is that you may impact the balance of
