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Subject: [OM] Re: RSX (was "My personal Film vs. Digital tests")
From: ScottGee1 <scottgee1@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 11:59:30 -0400
"OTT"??

On 5/13/05, jowilcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <jowilcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote: 
> 
> 
> Quoting AG Schnozz <agschnozz@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > What is wierd is that the E-1 when using CS2, -1
> > Contrast, has
> > nearly identical color response. I was just looking at
> > some
> > RSX-50 slides the other day and noted how similar the
> > look is.
> > Uncanny.
> >
> > Every attempt at scanning them is thwarted by the
> > golfball like
> > grain, though. For some reason it really aliases
> > something
> > fierce on my 2700dpi scanner.
> >
> > AG
> 
> Grain was more pronounced but very acceptable on my Polaroid
> scanner. Even RSX-200 was just fine -- certainly not like
> Provia but more than OK. So I'd have to agree with you
> about the difference the light source makes in the scanner
> on the graininess in the scan.
> 
> I quit using RSX-50 when it went to version II, which had
> more of that OTT color saturation. Velvia is my OTT film. :)
> 
> But the old version didn't have the dynamic range of the
> newer version. There's always something.
> 
> As long as we're on your nickle here, I found a way to tame
> the digital greens, sort of. If you have something
> comparable to PS's channel mixer, get on the Green channel
> and decrease it from 100% to 80% and add 20% on the blue
> channel. For me it makes it look more like a film green.
> Not necessarily Velvia, but more like film in, for example,
> Moose's latest bridge photo comparison.
> 
> Not sure whether I like what it does to the sky though.
> There's always something.
> 
> Joel W.
> 
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