Digital BW, The Print

Dana,

 

Not many images have that range – but lately I’ve been photographing in cathedrals where the deep interior shadows through to the sunlit stained glass windows certainly have that challenge.  So ... yes, I really do.

 

Steve Gledhill

www.virtuallygrey.co.uk <http://www.virtuallygrey.co.uk/> 

 

From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com [mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Dana H. Myers
Sent: 07 October 2008 21:21
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Subject Brightness Range - branch from [Digital BW] Re: Getting reasonable scan file sizes w/ MF & LF ...

 

Steve Gledhill wrote:
> The next step requires the scanner to be able to scan high 
> density negatives – or more specifically, areas of high density – the 
> highlights. My Epson V700 does that for me. The scanner captures the 
> whole range from clear film base to the maximum density of the negative 
> and represents it in the TIFF file as a full range 16-bit greyscale 
> scan. So the huge SBR in the original scene is ‘compressed’ (via my 
> workflow) into the range my paper is capable of – i.e. maximum ink black 
> to paper white.

Do you really capture 17-stops of range using a 16-bit TIFF?

Dana 



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