[filmscanners] Re: New price on Flextight Photo in UK

["Dave King" <kingphoto@mindspring.com>]

From: "Austin Franklin" <darkroom@ix.netcom.com>

>> I accept that the software can assist in pulling more information out of
a
>> negative

>>Simon

>Boy, do I disagree with that...  How on earth can software "pull more
>information out of a negative", aside from the control of the light source
>and the analog gain stage prior to the A/D?  Those aren't software issues,
>but operator or firmware/calibration issues.

>Austin

The problem is calibration settings may appear to be available in many of
the "prosumer" sofware packages, but irreversable clipping and tone scale
truncations still occur.

Dave


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