If I am not mistaken, there seems to be a drift on the part of manufacturers to
provide film stock that will be usable for both digital and paper processing.
Kodak Supra has been portrayed as such a film. Considering the capabilities of
digital technology, it seems to me that the primary adjustments will be to
minimize grain size and the ability of a scanner to neutralize the orange masks
required for paper processes. As long as there is a film market, it seems that
the prudent move for a manufacturer would be to optimize their films for both
the film and digital markets for economic purposes (theirs and ours).
Most of us have had to burn and dodge, adjust exposure time, and mess with color
balance to achieve the results we wanted when developing prints. Unless we take
the perfect photo that needs no tweaking or croping, we will have to adjust
scans in the same ways. Maybe the scanner industry has to put more time and
effort into optimizing the ability to scan film stock rather than expecting the
film industry to adjust to the scanners.
Gordon
Laurie Solomon wrote:
> There is no reason why said negative films could not be designed to be
> optimized for digital uses only ... Now such a thing may very well be
> impractical but it is not
> impossible or illogical.
