> Once again: I don't like the fact that no program (really?) can
> faithfully convert negative to positive, even if they are equipped
> with profiles for particular films. But because of this I won't stop
> using negs; instead I'm
> trying to figure out how to best use the tools I have (VueScan,
> NikonScan).
> With help from more experience user, I hope. I don't need lists of
> variables
> like the one above, it doesn't make thing easier.
> Theorizing is a frequent trap, when we only need to talk in practical
> terms:
> I have a nice portrait photograph on one of my Reala negs and would
> like to
> make a digital print from it on, let's say, Epson 2200 and Hahnemuehle
> PhotoRag. How to sort out colors best?
Your desires and wishes are those of us all and serve as the ideal goal; but
they may not be perfectly accomplishable practically speaking. Moreover,
you sound like you are a finicky sort who is more demanding than the average
bear; thus, what is accomplishable and satisfactory may be dependent on ones
aesthetic preverences and tolerence levels as well as one's preverences with
respect to what is deemed as meeting the demands of equivalancy. A number
of people find that chromogenic black and white film based images processed
in C-41 and printed on color photographic paper are acceptible and equal to
the traditional silver halide black and white film based prints in quality
and look; I don't. I also do not expect that a perfect equivalance between
the two will ever come about. Similarly, the same can be said regarding the
digital printing of black and white images using inkjet printers versus
traditional wet process printing. Objectively, I am not sure that one can
say one is better than the other; but one is left saying that they are
different from one another.
filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk wrote:
>>> With digital you can have the whole picture well corrected but one
>>> particular color will be off
>>
>> This can be true; but you are working with different mediums.
> Certainly.
> I'm not offended by current technology at all. I just like using
> negatives
> for certain tasks and worry that I won't be able to print them by
> scanning
> as good as with optical printing. I'm looking for the best solution,
> that's
> why I write here. VueScan has always been very good except for the
> highlights problem which I still have.
>> Why would you
>> expect that there should be a one-to-one correspondence between what
>> you get with film, optical projection enlargement, and continuous
>> tone dye based emulsion based photographic papers, on the one hand,
>> and digital, emonitor displayed, and non-continuous toned dye or
>> pigmented ink based printing on inkjet medium.
> Once again: I don't like the fact that no program (really?) can
> faithfully convert negative to positive, even if they are equipped
> with profiles for particular films. But because of this I won't stop
> using negs; instead I'm
> trying to figure out how to best use the tools I have (VueScan,
> NikonScan).
> With help from more experience user, I hope. I don't need lists of
> variables
> like the one above, it doesn't make thing easier.
> Theorizing is a frequent trap, when we only need to talk in practical
> terms:
> I have a nice portrait photograph on one of my Reala negs and would
> like to
> make a digital print from it on, let's say, Epson 2200 and Hahnemuehle
> PhotoRag. How to sort out colors best?
> I'll try to post samples later.
>
> Regards
>
> Tomek
> www.zakrzewski.art.pl
>
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