[filmscanners] Re: Scanning negs vs. slides

["Bob Frost" <bob@frost.name>]

Tony,

As someone who works mainly with negatives rather than slides, have you
developed the ability to reverse negs in your brain? I find that I simply
cannot do this; I struggle sometimes to even tell what the image is, let
alone whether it is any good or not. Yet I once knew a photographic
technician who could just look at a neg and tell immediately whether it was
any good.

Does this come with practice and experience, or do you need brain
connections that I obviously do not have?

Bob Frost.

----- Original Message -----
From: <TonySleep@halftone.co.uk>

The major, major advantage of slide is that there's an immediate reference
right there, you can see what it should look like. For many people that's
so conclusive a USP that nothing else matters. For me, that is a
disadvantage!  I'm generally photographing where slide's limitations, its
intrinsic contrast and restricted dynamic range, are a pain, and whatever I
get on slide is far away from what was there and what I want.



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