RE: [Digital BW] Grain in negatives vs. slides (was From the hors es mouth)
2002-02-01 by Alessandro Pardi
Harvey, I never thought (or heard) about it but it makes a lot of sense. The lower Dmax in neg. film, also, makes it necessary to increase contrast, to get acceptable images, therefore emphasizing grain. I have to say, though, that I get excellent results with Portra400BW with respect to grain... Alessandro Pardi
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-----Original Message----- As I recall, form the scanner lists, in general, color neg. films on all scanners appear grainier than transparency films because of the algorithms used to get rid of the orange mask. <snip> Harvey Ferdschneider partner, SKID Photography, NYC Todd Flashner wrote: > Any Idea why that is? I mean in conventional photography I don't notice > C-prints as being much more (any more?) grainy than R-prints or Cibas. Why > do PMT scanners record neg film as so much more grainy than chromes? > > Todd > > > Todd, > > > > I don't shoot 35mm so I can not really opine on the grain of a 35mm scan. I > > so shoot 120 and 4x5 and scan T-Max 100 and Fuji Astia regularly. I have scanned > > Kodak Portra Neg film with good results, but obviously negative films is > > granier than transparency film. > > > > Mike > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]