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Subject: Re: [OM] Beating a Dead Horse (Not Animal Rights)
From: Wayne Shumaker <shumaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 15:58:41 -0400
Jan, are you sure this is correct:

At 08:00 PM 9/23/2000 -0700, Jan Steinman wrote:
<snip>
>Negative film has a greater tonal range, but inexpensive CCD scanners
>tend to make the highlights noisy and grainy looking.

According to one book I have: "The tonal range of a negative is very
narrow compared to a transparency, because a negative's tonal range is
optimized to match the sensitometric curve of printing papers." (from
Adobe Photoshop 5.5 for photographers) Narrow/greater??

regards,
Wayne



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