[filmscanners] Re: Filmscanners - is this about as good as itgets?

["Arthur Entlich" <artistic-1@shaw.ca>]

Well, one nice thing about digital capture is the ability to balance the
lighting source electronically.  No filters to pay with, no specially
balanced films... etc.  Of course, the other side is that no matter when
you take a photo, be it early morning during sunrise, mid-afternoon,
during a storm, in shade, or at sunset or dusk, the image looks the same ;-)

Art

Sam A. McCandless wrote:

> I was surprised, Ramesh, to see in a recent issue of "Popular
> Photography", in an editor's response to a letter to the editor:
>
> "... However, many digital cameras now offer color accuracy that is
> better than any film we've tested. ..."
>
> This surprised me, but only because I didn't remember it being said
> in the many digital-vs-film discussions I've seen. That is, it didn't
> surprise me because I doubt it. It's just that the digital-vs-film
> war seems to be conducted so much on the resolution/sharpness/detail
> front.
>
> How PopPhoto defines and tests color accuracy, I don't know. But I
> assume prints are not involved. And that color management with
> profiles and, beyond that, color correction via case-by-case
> adjustments is sometimes needed no matter how accurately the colors
> are captured, and regardless of how they're captured.
>
> The more recent releases of LaserSoft's SilverfastAi scanning
> software seem to me much better, at least with negative/print film
> and my Polaroid SS4000 (not Plus). It was bundled with my scanners
> and is the only scanner software I've ever used. If only its
> documentation had improved as much, I'd recommend it to anyone who
> can afford it. In fact, I would anyway to anyone who reads German,
> because I think the documentation suffers mostly from poor
> translation from, I assume, German into English.
>
> Sam


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