What's new
DPR Forum

Welcome to the Friendly Aisles!
DPRF is a spin-off of dpreview. We are a photography forum with people from all over the world freely sharing their knowledge and love of photography. Everybody is welcome, from beginners to the experienced professional. From smartphone to Medium Format.

DPRF is a community for everybody, every brand and every sensor format. Digital and film.
Enjoy this modern, easy to use software. Look also at our Reviews & Gallery!

Filmlike look prints with DSLRs possible

What blown highlights? Someone needs a monitor calibration : -) There is tone in all areas of the Chicken shot.

Scanning film is NOT an easy thing to master. Film is super great when making silver prints because a diffusion enlarger is very forgiving of grain. Scanners are not. They multiply the issue because of converting the random tonal gradautions of grain into a relentlessly uniform pixel strucure. Even using a Imacon 848, it is difficult to scan and get results like a conventional print produces from film.

Cocka-Doodle-Do !!! YES, the winner gets any M8 I have in my possession at this time.


466510.jpg
 
mmmhhh,

normally I would guess it is film, since it has not this digital appearance to me. BUT...

...it seems that the DOF is somehow wrong. The stones in front of the chicken are sharper then the chicken itself and the environment around the chicken. I know that Marc is an excellent photographer, so there must be a reason for this.

So either it is a crop, or a focus problem from a AF camera. Many Canon DSLR owners complained about AF incorrectness of the 20D, so this could be a reason...

or did you manipulate the image to confuse us?


Regarding the B&W photo. As always, I like it. BUT look at the chin of the kid. Would the border of the chin be as "sharp" in a film-scanner result?

It is really not as strong as I see it often in other DSLRs, but it is still there...

Teeth and eyes are extremely sharp. I have to see this on a print to make my mind. The upload limits do not justice for this image.

I like the noise by the way. I guess a high ISO shot. It give more "structure" to the image.


I like this kind of "game". It focusses us on images
happy.gif


Please more of this!
 
The DOF is a result of 1) shooting down on the Chicken and 2) perspective control applied in PS to square the keystone effect from shooting down.

I made a 11X14 of this for my wife who collects Chicken stuff for her kitchen (which I still don't fully understand and chalk it up to a woman's prerogative)

The effects of the chicken chest and the kids chin is a result of sharpening a little j-peg for web upload. They would look the same if shot on film and scanned, or shot digital since digital sharpening is achieved through edge contrast, not micro contrast like Leica and Zeiss lenses provide.
 
Partly because the chest and head and round to the tail has some of that pasted on effect. It stands out from the background although there is detail in the background so the depth of field is not very shallow. This indicates digital too because I believe that digital gives greater dof than film even wide open - with smaller sensors anyway.
Also, maybe the picture lacks a little of the richness and detail that you seem to tend to get with film - difficult to describe that but film always seems to have as Matt says, more soul.
 
Thanks Matt,

I have the Minolta Dimage scanner (the first version)and love it although what a slow business scanning is especially with digital ICE. I am always looking for ways to speed it up. I am interested in the new Epson V750 Pro just tested in AP and well received, because I want to scan my medium format and panoramic pictures.
 
Mind you having said that, the tail feathers do have that richness. It's a difficult one. I would still have said digital!
John
 
On my screen the Rooster colors look fine. The background blown out ... but "hey, what can you do?". The background is simply almost gray/white and accenutates the colors in the Rooster.

However; the Rooster on my screen looks "out of focus" or very soft due to the movement of the Rooster. Especially when compared to the great shot of the kid w/ the bow tie.

michael.
 
"What blown highlights? Someone needs a monitor calibration"

OOPS! Took the contrast down 4 clicks and suddenly the highlight detail appeared. I wondered why my retinas had a burning sensation looking at the monitor ;-)
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top