Austin writes: > 10 stops is not hard at all to get in a > single scene.
Examples? I routinely scan slides in which there is at least some detail at every point in the image, light and shadow (excluding specular highlights and light sources)--often more than I realized was there. Clearly, the scene brightness did not span ten stops if I'm able to get anything other than solid black in the shadows and solid white in the highlights. My own metering of the original scene supports this, with 6-7 stops being about the largest spans I usually see. Most shadows are lit at least a little bit indirectly; most highlights are not as featurelessly bright as they might appear at first glance. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
