![]() ![]() This was what, 70 years ago? How closely can a 35mm film camera come to approaching that quality? Is 4" x 5" film (which I think Joanna uses) better in today’s world, than the gear Ansel used? Ansel Adams used many cameras, including an 8x10 view camera shooting on 8" x 10" film. Does this apply when the image, grain and all, has been scanned, digitizing it? ![]() ![]() ![]() Anything that degraded film grain would make the resulting print less sharp. I know how well Deep Prime does on digital noise - how does it react with film grain? The better people working in b&w way back when, said when you’re in the darkroom, using your enlarger, maybe with a magnifying device, to focus specifically on the film grain - as that “grain” (unlike digital noise) actually WAS the picture. The first question, before asking anything else, is whether PL4 is appropriate for working on scanned images from film (35mm, 2 1/4", 4x5, or whatever)? All the color controls in PL4 would be meaningless, but so many other controls would be awesome! In addition to the other things I’m doing, I’m thinking about buying some 35mm b&w film, and seeing how much quality I can get in my images if I do things correctly. In this case, I used Photoshop to change the tonality of the flare spots to that of some neighbouring rocks. But when you’ve got a 300Mpx scan from a 5" x 4" negative to play with, it’s easier to be more precise. This picture, from my large format photography web site, had several flare spots in front of the vaguely triangular rocks in the middle ground. Using control points to remove lens flare or a foreground obstruction ![]()
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