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Just a thought that occurred to me yesterday when I was developing and scanning some shots from the previous day. Is choice of film less important with regards to colour tone and contrast when you're scanning digitally?
I've always used HP5 and tried two different developers but settled on using ID-11 for now. I thought I'd try a roll of Delta 400 just to see if I could see any difference. I'm not sure I can. I do understand that if I shot Tri-X at 1600 and dev'd it in Rodinal it would look very different to a 50 speed film in ID-11. But at the less extreme ends of the spectrum, is there any reason to choose one over the other? From what I've read about scanning, one way to go about it is to scan a fairly flat negative to draw the detail out and then adjust in an editing program (LR for me). If you're doing this then the subtlety of the film is likely going to be lost anyway?
As I'm still fairly new to this, can anyone educate me on why this might be right or wrong? Or do you scan in a different way than I do?
These couple were shot with Delta 400 dev'd in ID-11 1+1. Maybe you could tell by looking which film I used? Maybe I've been heavy handed with my tone adjustment in LR?
EDIT - these look more contrasty with web compression.
tAfXlDcg by Craigus89, on Flickr
GXsUJMbg by Craigus89, on Flickr
I've always used HP5 and tried two different developers but settled on using ID-11 for now. I thought I'd try a roll of Delta 400 just to see if I could see any difference. I'm not sure I can. I do understand that if I shot Tri-X at 1600 and dev'd it in Rodinal it would look very different to a 50 speed film in ID-11. But at the less extreme ends of the spectrum, is there any reason to choose one over the other? From what I've read about scanning, one way to go about it is to scan a fairly flat negative to draw the detail out and then adjust in an editing program (LR for me). If you're doing this then the subtlety of the film is likely going to be lost anyway?
As I'm still fairly new to this, can anyone educate me on why this might be right or wrong? Or do you scan in a different way than I do?
These couple were shot with Delta 400 dev'd in ID-11 1+1. Maybe you could tell by looking which film I used? Maybe I've been heavy handed with my tone adjustment in LR?
EDIT - these look more contrasty with web compression.
tAfXlDcg by Craigus89, on Flickr
GXsUJMbg by Craigus89, on Flickr