josh_rienecke

<p>Thank you Mauro! My film choices are 1/2 Portra 400, 1/4 Portra 160 and the other 1/4 your pick. Thanks!!</p>

<p>Mauro I just created my entry, I emailed you the results to upload as I am having difficulty uploading to photo.net. The contest is harder than I thought, I used LR to adjust colors, SilverEffex Pro for the TMAX to show what kind of results a plug in can do and adjusted to my experience with the 2 films. I'm so glad the negative rude comments have been ceased so the contest can be fun and we can all learn something. I also sent Mauro a scan an old Mercury using Tmax 400 in a 40 year old Canon Rangefinder with a tiny lens and scanned on Nikon 9000 with no adjustments cropped at 50%, I love the feel of the picture and have spent hours on end trying to reproduce it digitally with no luck. Others may have have better luck! :) for me as a mostly digital user these threads are great knowledge and in turn have gave me the push to explore film and use is as a side-by side tool in my workflow and personally I love the results I have gotten.</p>

<p>"You are either underexposed on the 5DII picture or your white balance is way off or a combination of both"</p>

<p>Dick how do you know the white balance is way off? If you were not at the show and don't know the colored can spotlight setup of the club you cannot possibly criticize Mauro's color processing, lights change frantically from one second to another in the majority of rock concerts. </p>

<p> Not sure how you can say it is underexposed either, from his flash usage looks like it was a very dimly lit venue with no hot white spots in the front (judging from the pics only) and just dim colored lights and maybe some bright white backlighting.</p>

<p>"Yet another biased discussion by people who apparently have no idea how to use digital technology properly. I don't know why you folks even bother. What are you trying to be? The Fox News of photography?"<br>

Dan do you have live event shots to compare? <br>

Mauro I agree with you that any more exposed on the face and it would be too blown out, slightly underexposing is not going to cause too much noise for anything under 11x17 and exposing more will also detract from the mood of the colorful spots and smoke. In live rock show events the musicians are moving around the stage usually at a pretty good pace and to avoid too much blur 3200 is a standard baseline ISO to start with to keep a high enough shutter speed, at least with me and my colleagues that is.<br>

It looks like the first picture on page 3 with noise reduction off in DPP is not overly sharpened to my eye, the one in Lightroom is very sharpened and probably looks good at 5x7 for magazine print. I don't think any of the 100% comparisons are gonna be used for a 24x36 or larger print Mauro is just showing results and graciously adding further findings as people request.....</p>

<p>I'm pretty sure Mauro's post is not a controlled scientific test judging from his comment mentioning comparison's of low light capability of live events, I am a professional photographer for a national music magazine and there is no way you can match a scene with identical lighting and subject. This is a great post for me and from the results Mauro got I will for sure be loading up my Black Rapid straps with my Nikon F100 and a Canon 7NE with some TMAX 400 and possibly the portra film as well to accompany my 5DMII. This will save me a lot of money not having to buy another 5DMII for my wide angle shots! Thank you Mauro for the comparison</p>

uhmm, hey Mike, I have spoken to Mauro extensively and his "Business" site is really just to help out people who need their film digitized, he is actually a VP of a big corporate company and really does not need the money! I agree with Mark and others, all the negative comments should just stay where they came from and isn't there a forum moderator to kick rude people off !!!

Mauro, this is one the most awesome study of film posted. You constantly work to give us all more insight and understanding. I thank you for that.

 

People don't stop to value this information. They respond too fast before they can assimilate.

 

It is crazy to think the Luminous Landscape once argued that a 3MP digicam match Provia 100F. Oh well..... they have to sell.

 

Can't wait until you post the Ektar and Velvia scans.

 

Thank you.