i think there is always an adjustment to make be it slide or negative
and it is ,and ,in my view ,will be subjective forever even with
digital.
Beeing an interior designer by profession i am trained to deal with
color and trust my eye!
yves
Le 25 mai 04, à 18:28, Piers Hemy a écrit :
>
> Ah, well when you put it that way, I have to agree with you - although
> I
> would say the same 'difficulty' applies (if anything, more so) to
> prints
> produced from slides. That is, when the end product is the result of
> two
> separate processes (film original, paper final image) and perhaps the
> problem is the two processes.
>
> Perhaps you have made a good argument for an E-1, which will produce
> prints
> direct, and to your wife's liking? ;-)
>
> Piers
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: 25 May 2004 17:16
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [OM] Re: scanning print negatives and scanner exposure
> inconsistencies
>
>
>
> Piers asked:
>> So Velvia, not being a negative film, is objectively 'right' Jez?
>
> It's not so much what is right or wrong but what is predictable and
> repeatable. When I use Velvia (for a landscape) I know what to expect
> (and
> others will even be able to guess it's Velvia) but when I use a
> negative
> film without a scanner profile (or a calibrated system) I have to
> decide
> what adjustments to make. And personally I can't - I always end up
> with a
> print that my wife says 'doesn't look right'.
>
> I'm hoping to evolve to a (digital?) camera through to print process
> that
> will add or subtract nothing - the audio purists call their perfect
> amplifier 'a straight wire with gain' - and my Holy Grail is the
> photographic equivalent!
>
> br
> jez
>
>
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