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> An overexposed digital picture may have no recoverable detail, while an underexposed film picture may have no recoverable detail. There's a further nuance he
by Turing_Machine 5y ago
> An overexposed digital picture may have no recoverable detail, while an underexposed film picture may have no recoverable detail.
There's a further nuance here... that depends on whether it's negative film or reversal (slide) film. Overexposed negs are better than underexposed, as you say, but the opposite is true for slides. People who shot
"chrome" films would often underexpose by, say, half a step, while the opposite was true for those who shot negs.
- jrockway 5y agoTrue. I totally forgot that slide film existed since they stopped making Velvia. (I use Ektar for color.)
- abruzzi 5y agoVelvia 100 is gone, but Velvia 50 is still available (though the large sizes aren't imported to the US). Then there's Fuji Provia, my favorite of Fuji's reversal films. In fact I just ordered 10 rolls of Provia in 120 film.