>Jan, are you sure this is correct:
>
>At 08:00 PM 9/23/2000 -0700, Jan Steinman wrote:
><snip>
> >Negative film has a greater tonal range, but inexpensive CCD scanners
> >tend to make the highlights noisy and grainy looking.
>
>According to one book I have: "The tonal range of a negative is very
>narrow compared to a transparency, because a negative's tonal range is
>optimized to match the sensitometric curve of printing papers." (from
>Adobe Photoshop 5.5 for photographers) Narrow/greater??
>
All I know is that the "pro" scans I got of some E100VS were terrible. The
tonal range became very compressed. Lost all shadow and highlight details.
Blech..
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Dirk Wright
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