10-21-2010, 02:25 PM
[quote name='jenbenn' timestamp='1287663205' post='3718']
I dont want to shoot foul, but really, looking at pints from my slides (yes, properly exposed slides, printed by a professional lab for an exhibition) I see fundamentally less dynamic range in them compared to professional prints of my 50d and 5d Mark II files. The Prints from the slides show however a more pleasing rendition of the brightest highlights. Its not that the prints from digital clip earlier (this was counteracted in raw processing) but their highlights seem less natural and less smooth than the analagoue prints (difficult to decribe).
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Jenbenn,
IMO it honestly is a matter of adjusting one's processing to the new media. I found it took me about two years to get there, before I started to become really happy, and that was only after I discovered and bought Nik Software (Colour Efex and Silver Efex), because with those I could work as if I were working in the darkroom again, rather than struggle with the PS interface. Not cheap, but IMO worth every penny, cent, escudo or otherwise. <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='B)' />
Kind regards, Wim
I dont want to shoot foul, but really, looking at pints from my slides (yes, properly exposed slides, printed by a professional lab for an exhibition) I see fundamentally less dynamic range in them compared to professional prints of my 50d and 5d Mark II files. The Prints from the slides show however a more pleasing rendition of the brightest highlights. Its not that the prints from digital clip earlier (this was counteracted in raw processing) but their highlights seem less natural and less smooth than the analagoue prints (difficult to decribe).
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Jenbenn,
IMO it honestly is a matter of adjusting one's processing to the new media. I found it took me about two years to get there, before I started to become really happy, and that was only after I discovered and bought Nik Software (Colour Efex and Silver Efex), because with those I could work as if I were working in the darkroom again, rather than struggle with the PS interface. Not cheap, but IMO worth every penny, cent, escudo or otherwise. <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='B)' />
Kind regards, Wim
Gear: Canon EOS R with 3 primes and 2 zooms, 4 EF-R adapters, Canon EOS 5 (analog), 9 Canon EF primes, a lone Canon EF zoom, 2 extenders, 2 converters, tubes; Olympus OM-D 1 Mk II & Pen F with 12 primes, 6 zooms, and 3 Metabones EF-MFT adapters ....