>From: "Laurie Solomon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: filmscanners: orange mask
>Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 12:10:01 -0600
>
>There is no reason why said negative
>films could not be designed to be optimized for digital uses only (to wit,
>dedicated to scanning) in which case such masks might be unnecessary and
>replace by profiles that would digitally account for and correct the
>unwanted of a cyan and a magenta dye in the negative film in the same way
>that color filter packs are utilized today. As far as I know, there is no
>good reason why a film similar to transparency film without any orange
>masks
>could not be produced which would display a negative image rather than a
>positive image and would be more appropriate for direct scanning and
>digital
>reversing. Now such a thing may very well be impractical but it is not
>impossible or illogical.
Along these same lines, would it be possible to produce a positive film that
has characteristics better suited to scanning, e.g., lower contrast and
maybe less density in the shadows?
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