[filmscanners] Re: Compression >> Wide range digital

2002-10-13 Thread Tony Sleep
On Sat, 12 Oct 2002 09:20:22 +1000 Julian Robinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > So - is there a digital camera that allows you to record a > wide-brightness-range raw file? If not, why not? Yes, quite a few studio backs and upmarket cameras do. If Canon have any sense at all, the RAW files wil

[filmscanners] Re: Compression >> Wide range digitalcameras

2002-10-13 Thread Tony Sleep
On Sat, 12 Oct 2002 02:42:38 +0100 Bert Logan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I wish I could attach a picture I found in a brutally underexposed > negative I scanned the other day - a stunning & beautiful > ex girlfriend giving me a look to die for - that I couldnt ask > her to do a second time aro

[filmscanners] Re: Compression

2002-10-13 Thread Arthur Entlich
It is very interesting how these two threads, this one regarding the digital/film comparisons regarding the newest Canon digital camera, and the other thread regarding "over resolving scans" have independently come to the same issues, those of aliasing and grain. I hope people who have been readi

[filmscanners] Re: Compression >> Wide range digitalcameras

2002-10-12 Thread Bert Logan
Julian Robinson wrote: > [chop] disincentive to going fully > digital. My normal photography is with negative film for the reasons you > state - to capture almost everything in a wide brightness range, and work > on it later to produce an acceptable contrast final image. This can't work > wit

[filmscanners] RE: Compression >> Wide range digitalcameras

2002-10-12 Thread Austin Franklin
Tony, > CCD sensors > can now achieve 14 stops range, What full frame imaging CCD sensors do that in a "normal" camera? There are some that if you actively cool them, and control their environment, you might get that kind of response from them...but that's not really a usable device for a 35mm-

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2001-02-05 Thread Michael Wilkinson
I have to say that I would not use jpeg for saving anything.if for any reason you wish to modify the file at a later date you will have already thrown away information. There are a couple of sites worth a look www.jpeg.org/JPEG2000.htmw www.luratech.com However if you are satisfied with the result