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From: "C.H.Ling" <ch_photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 10:34:39 +0800
For overexposed negatives, the shadow areas are great of course. I think the 
exposure linearity will be hurt but it is not easy to judge with normal 
images.

C.H.Ling

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


> But that's not the same as dynamic range.  I assume you're talking about
> negative film which should handle overexposure fairly well.  But what
> happened to your shadow areas with the overexposure?   If all was
> hunky-dory with a two stop overexposure why doesn't the manufacturer
> rate the film at two stops over.  Once again, what do the film
> manufacturers state their dynamic range to be?
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
> On 5/1/2012 10:03 PM, C.H.Ling wrote:
>> Don't know about the film data but I have overexposed some Fuji 100/200 
>> to
>> two stops or more and the color is still great, you can never get the 
>> same
>> with digital.
>>
>> C.H.Ling
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Chuck Norcutt"<chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>
>>> You are quoting DR numbers for film higher than anything I have ever
>>> seen.  What I'm interested in is not the AG dynamic range but what Kodak
>>> or Fuji says about their films.
>>>
>>> Numbers I'm familiar with are more like 5-6 stops for slide film and
>>> 9-11 stops for negatives.  Do you have some non-AG numbers to dispute
>>> that?
>>>
>>> Chuck Norcutt
>>>
>>>
>>> On 5/1/2012 6:39 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
>>>>> OK, I'll buy it if you give me the actual dynamic range numbers.
>>>>
>>>> Without jumping to heroics, I was getting 12-14 stops of DR and the
>>>> highlights and shadows didn't go wonky. With heroics (adjusting the
>>>> scanner's exposure times" I'm seeing another two stops lurking in
>>>> there, but depending on the picture, this may or may not be overly
>>>> usable.

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