Hi
okay, first of all, this is meant for healthy discussion. i want to hear some opinions on this issue, since i haven't been able to get a conclusive answer anywhere......
Slides do look better than prints under a light box, with a good loupe, or projected. But we all know to be of any practical use, they have to be scanned in digital format, even to make prints. (Okay, u can do a traditional print, but it has already been established that digital prints are far better than any traditional wet prints one can make).
Which one do u think scans better, slides or negs? Quote your personal experiences with both when converting them to digital format. Do u scan them yourself using dedicated film scanners? flat bed scanners? Or maybe you have real experience scanning them with industrial strength drum scanners? ;P how about scans from both using minilabs?
some points to start us off....
1. Slow speed slides have better colour saturation, vividness and finer grain (?), theoritically giving better scans.
2. Negs however, hold better detail over a wider dynamic range from shadows to highlights and will make a better scan with more detail, theoritically.....
3. high ISO negs today are very fine grained, almost indistinguishable from low ISO ones, and should scan better than slides pushed to high ISO. true?
anyone?
okay, first of all, this is meant for healthy discussion. i want to hear some opinions on this issue, since i haven't been able to get a conclusive answer anywhere......
Slides do look better than prints under a light box, with a good loupe, or projected. But we all know to be of any practical use, they have to be scanned in digital format, even to make prints. (Okay, u can do a traditional print, but it has already been established that digital prints are far better than any traditional wet prints one can make).
Which one do u think scans better, slides or negs? Quote your personal experiences with both when converting them to digital format. Do u scan them yourself using dedicated film scanners? flat bed scanners? Or maybe you have real experience scanning them with industrial strength drum scanners? ;P how about scans from both using minilabs?
some points to start us off....
1. Slow speed slides have better colour saturation, vividness and finer grain (?), theoritically giving better scans.
2. Negs however, hold better detail over a wider dynamic range from shadows to highlights and will make a better scan with more detail, theoritically.....
3. high ISO negs today are very fine grained, almost indistinguishable from low ISO ones, and should scan better than slides pushed to high ISO. true?
anyone?