Re: [photo-3d] transparencies vs. prints

[Mike Kersenbrock <michaelk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dan Vint wrote:

> Take a look at a book on the zone system started with Ansel Adams. Slide
> film typically is a 3 (usal) to maybe 5 zone range that you have to carefully
> place to get a good slide, I beleive print films are like 5 to 7 in this 10
> point scale. It is easier to get more information in a print film and work
> with that so you have a more complete tonal range in the picture. In a slide
> you either blow out the highlights or loose the shadow detail in a slide.


Quite true, but one doesn't usually view negatives to enjoy the image (anybody
do that in stereo?).  Kinda orange at very least.  :-)  Problem with prints
isn't the film, it's the print itself where the brights aren't anywhere 
near as bright as on well lit slides.

In talking "transparencies vs prints" (as in the Subject: line above),
it's not slide-film vs print-film, it's slide-film vs. prints.  If one is 
intending to make prints from the slide film and then compare the prints, 
then that's a different discussion.

Mike K.