[Brightcolours]

Kodachrome was a colored b/w film and goes beyond 5-6 stops - which I doubt for slides, but never measured, so you might be right.

I was referring to b/w film, you're right, color negative has a lower range.

 


With "black" I meant the shadows didn't went purple, grainy or other sort of powerless bunch of flat colors in a part of the picture I expect dark shadows. I could have said "dark grey", but even then you would argue against, I guess.

 


If you're compressing a 14 stop picture to 8 stops it is no longer a 14 stop picture, that's simple logic. If you're drying an apple the result will be dry fruit, looking less colourful than the apple was and containing not the same amount of water. Sometimes I get the impression you're misunderstanding on purpose just to keep your position.

I am not misunderstanding anything at all. An 8 stop image looks right, a 14 stop image does not. Maybe it looks ok to you in a virtual world where one can display it in a way unknown to our real world.... But photos are there to be looked at in real. So, what do you want to argue? That 14 stops looks good but one can't see/view it? Or that 14 stops looks good when compressed into a lower DR, with all its flatness and greyness?