Jan then Wayne Wayne wrote:
>Negative film has a greater tonal range.
>According to one book I have: "The tonal range of a negative is very
>narrow compared to a transparency.."
I think both of you are right, sort of. Negative film has the ability
to record a greater range of tones by compressing them. When printing
the artist has a full palette, more or less, for the final image.
With reversal film, the slide *is* the final image. The tonal range is
fully expanded, even if that means blown-out highlights and black
shadows. (I always wondered how--or if--Ansel Adams used his Zone
System with his first Kodachromes.)
Morgan Sparks
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