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Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: 10 more film pics
From: "Carlos J. Santisteban" <zuiko21@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:30:08 +0200
Hi Nathan, Moose and all,

Back to catch-up mode...

On 3/23/2011 3:14 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> I have added 10 pictures shot around here with my Fuji MF rangefinder to
my film gallery. Start with this one:
>
>
http://www.greatpix.eu/Other/Sometimes-I-use-film/7590141_XFqsu#1226387893_E2Nfr-O-LB

I like them! I don't know what has changed from your previous B&W scans, but
I prefer these "lighter" tones. Beautiful rendering. And nice pics too ;-)

From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
>It's doing a good job of retaining the whole brightness range, avoiding
clipping at top and bottom of the histogram. But
>it's expanding the mid tones upward, compressing the upper mid range/lower
highlights into huge spikes near the top of
>the histogram.

You're right, maybe it's what I like...

>In most of the images, highlight tonal detail is compressed so much that it
just looks white.

I think it depends on the monitor calibration too. Now I'm at work with a
crappy uncalibrated display, and the highlights look actually clipped... but
whe I saw them at home, the highlights seemed detailed enough -- my LG1910S
is far from great in shadows, but very detailed in highlights.


>The first image is strongly affected by this. In the original you posted,
there is almost no detail in the stone on the
>left. Squash the highlight spike down and spread it out and, Bob's your
uncle, there's all kinds of textural/tonal
>detail in the stone.
><
http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=Others/Wajsman/Sometimes_I_Use_Film&image=SIuf_Plaza_deAa.jpg
>

Much nicer here, indeed.

>Here, the effect makes the image very flat, by taking so much contrast
detail out of the buildings.
><
http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=Others/Wajsman/Sometimes_I_Use_Film&image=SIuf_Conversationia80.jpg
>

It was the less impressive of the lot, yes.

>Now this is just a beautiful image - when the clouds aren't seriously
compromised.
><
http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=Others/Wajsman/Sometimes_I_Use_Film&image=SIuf_Salinas_de_Santa_Polaia60.jpg
>

Perhaps a bit too dramatic... now that I've fiddled with this monitor's
controls, the original doesn't look _that_ bad ;-)

>Here, the red filter held the clouds through scanning, but the building and
foreground again lost detail.
><
http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=Others/Wajsman/Sometimes_I_Use_Film&image=ISuf_Casa_Marilynia70.jpg
>

The effect is more noticeable in the ground. Otherwise, I think it's the
sharpening what makes the difference.

>I didn't do much to the first one. The couple on the pier got quite a lot
of attention - a bigger challenge, you see.
>:-)   You'll probably prefer the 50% solution I added.
><
http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=Others/Wajsman/Sometimes_I_Use_Film&image=SIuf_Playa_de_Postiguet50.jpg
>

A very reasonable solution, IMHO.

Cheers,
-- 
Carlos J. Santisteban Salinas
IES Turaniana (Roquetas de Mar, Almeria)
<http://cjss.sytes.net/>
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