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Re: [OM] Peter Lik again

Subject: Re: [OM] Peter Lik again
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:16:28 -0500
I think the difference is transmitted rather than reflected light.  A 
large monitor looks very good too.

Chuck Norcutt

C.H.Ling wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Andrew Dacey"
> 
>> With a slide you get a really good d-max in the super black blacks
>> the slide film will produce, and in the same shot you can also have
>> clear film base d-min, that's a pretty large dynamic range.
>>
>> But in terms of exposure, you're going to hit those brick walls of d-
>> min and d-max reasonably quickly (and a lot less quickly than with
>> print film). I think that's part of the look of slide film and part
>> of why it looks so good (when done properly), you're essentially
>> expanding the dynamic range of the scene when you capture it on film.
> 
> I'm not sure, I believe why slides look so good because it resemble what we 
> see so it is neither expanding nor compressing the scene (except at extreme 
> ends which are out of slide's capture range), that's why it look so 'real'.
> 
> C.H.Ling - looking at some slides and doing wild guessing. 
> 
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