[filmscanners] RE: dynamic range discussion

["Paul D. DeRocco" <pderocco@ix.netcom.com>]

I agree. This _is_ the place to discuss dynamic range with respect to film
scanners. I don't think anyone can reasonably complain about it, as long as
it's labeled as such in the subject line. It's no harder to hit Delete on
something that says Dynamic Range in the subject than it is to hit Delete on
something that says Get Your Viagra Now.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@ix.netcom.com

> From: Laurie Solomon
>
> My fear with proposals such as you are suggesting either in jest or in
> seriousness is that they often define those things of relevance
> to scanners
> and scanning as being cookbook "how to" recipes of how to resolve some
> particular empirical practical problem of a hardware, software,
> or workflow
> nature, as being battles over which scanner or software is better
> or best in
> response to some subscribers question as to what hardware or software they
> should buy, and as being superficial discussions of diagnosis of pragmatic
> related issues such as if it is better to scan positive films or negative
> films, film or prints, one type of film or paper over another type of film
> or paper.  The result is typically that all technical discussions of more
> than a superficial nature are abandoned and anything that is not
> in the form
> of advice or solutions to "how to" or "which is better" questions
> gives rise
> to a chorus of complaining subscribers who only want to talk about what is
> important to them.

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