Re: Tran vs neg

[petermarshall@xxxxxxxxx (Peter Marshall)]

The ability of the neg film to cover a greater subject range gives it an 
advantage with many subjects - you can see detail in shadows that would be 
black on tranny.

Since neg film is developed to a lower contrast than transparency, then in 
some ways it is an easier medium for the scanner to deal with. Removing 
the mask does present a slight problem - and if you only have a 24bit 
scanner it may be better to use tran.

You need to expose neg film more or less at its rated speed for scanning, 
while for normal printmaking many photographers deliberately overexpose. I 
have negs that make great prints that my scanner can hardly see anything 
in.

Peter Marshall

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> Subject: Tran vs neg
> 
> 
> Yes, I would think that question would be very important to those of us
> Panoaramic's who are scanning.  Transparency's always seem better, but 
> would
> certainly like to have more input on this
> 
> Charles of Sioux City
> 
> 
> Input:
> 
> To kick off this thread, it is known about the consistency of reversal
> (transparency) films that offer merely one and a half stops latitude in
> their emulsion.  While, negative films offer as much as five stops.
> 
> I wold imagine, to scan the reversal film, the scanner would be less 
> taxed
> to render all the colors balanced at the same intensity or within a 
> small
> altitude of ay one and a half stops, and that would make scanning
> transparencies easier.
> 
> SS.