Don't ask me why I am refereeing between these two, but I'll make one stab at it.
Since both people are anal retentive, at least I shouldn't get any sh*t on me ;-) I believe what Anthony is saying is that it is rare that a 10 stop difference would occur in adjacent areas of an image, not that a full image wouldn't contain a 10 stop range of contrast. Perhaps if you read one another more thoroughly, some of these disputes could be avoided. Art Austin Franklin wrote: >>>Are you claiming most real life scenes don't >>>have 10 stops of density range ... >>> >>Yes, if you eliminate light sources and specular highlights, particularly >>the former. >> >> >>>... or that film doesn't have 10 stops of >>>density range? >>> >>Film has the range, but most scenes do not use it all. Ten stops means a >>shadow at f/1.0 next to a bright spot at f/32. That's quite rare. >> > > Anthony, I have no idea where you take pictures, or how for that matter, but > your "experiences" and mine seem to never coincide. I know that what I take > pictures of, getting 10 stops in a scene is hardly rare. > > Do not confuse the density range of the scene, with the density range that > scene gets represented as on film. They are two entirely different things. > > Austin > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
