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[OM] Film latitude

Subject: [OM] Film latitude
From: "Daniel J. Mitchell" <DanielMitchell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 10:10:10 -0600
 This is probably a dumb question, but when people say "negative film has
more latitude than slide film", which stage(s) are they referring to where
you gain/lose latitude?

 From the end backwards, it seems like:

 1. once you've made a slide, you can't re-print it, so you're stuck with
whatever image is there -- with negatives you can play with enlarger times
to correct misexposure.

 2. is there more/less room to correct things at the development stage with
slide film for whatever reason? (ie you can't push them or somesuch)

 3. it can't be the original exposure stage, because slide film has tons of
range from light to dark, unless I'm missing something here?

 thanks,

 -- dan

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