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Scanning Agfa Scala

Scanning Agfa Scala

2003-05-27 by Mitch Alland

Recently, I've been using Agfa Scala, a transparency b&w film and 
scanning it on the FlexTight Precision II, which has adequate dynamic 
range for this film. Scala has beautiful gradation and renders skies as 
if one were using a light-yellow filter. Despite it's 200ISO speed, 
it's a fine-grain film. Also the film is pullable and pushable -- quite 
flexible for a transparency film. It's very convenient for selecting 
images to print because one is looking at slides rather than at contact 
sheets, but still I find that I often do a lot of "dodging and burning" 
equivalent curve adjustments in PS, so that I use the film as if it 
were a negative film. Does anyone have any experience with and views on 
this film?

--Mitch/Paris

Re: Scanning Agfa Scala

2003-05-28 by Mitch Alland

> Can it be returned from the processor un-mounted?

Yes.

--Mitch/Paris

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