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Subject: Re: [OM] Scanning slides vs. negs (was How many pixels in a 35mm film image)
From: "Barry B. Bean" <bbbean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 09:04:31 -0600
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 14:17:44 -0800, Moose wrote:

>The basic process, 
>reading light intensity of 3 colors, is inherently neutral to whether 
>the subject is a positive or negative image of the light reflected from 
>some scene elsewhere in space-time, scrawlings on a piece of clear 
>plastic, coffee stains on newspaper, etc. etc.

But there is an extra process in scanning negs - the negative image has to be 
translated to a positive, and the values used to do that can be tricky or lead 
to 
unexpected results. In the case of a slide, the scan simply reproduces the 
scanned image.




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