[rollei_list] Re: O.T Polaroid type 55 b+W film and DIGITAL Photography
- From: Eric Goldstein <egoldste@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 07:33:28 -0400
There were the always persistent rumors that Type 55 was Panotomic-X
Eric Goldstein
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On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 5:21 AM, <Newhouse230@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Yes Kirk,
> Very nice gray scale .
> I can remember one of the full-time photographers who worked at Polaroid
> while I did shot an interior of the Old North Church (?)
> in Boston using a Speed Graphic and Polaroid positive/negative type 55
> film. He made a 16 x20 print on Agfa Brovira. The tonality was
> exquisite; the highlights retained great detail as did the shadows. Some
> prints are a such a thing of beauty, that you always remember them even if
> the subject is relatively mundane.
>
> One area where digital capture still fails , in my opinion, is in the
> dynamic range and the shape of tonal curve. It is pointed out that today's
> digital dynamic range for is equal or superior to slide films. This may be
> true, but it is not even close to color or black and white negative film.
> I am forever cloning subtle detail into blown highlights of digital
> shots to get acceptable prints. The Polaroid negative produced by the Type
> 55 film of 45 years ago could produce some really beautiful images.
>
> To wander further O.T. I wonder if one of the members with a more
> technical background can predict if/when the dynamic range and tonal curve
> of digital images will improve in the way that CD sound quality
> did.....going from a very 'clipped' quality to something that could yield
> improved audio nuance. I am not an audiophile, so I don't know the
> technical terms, but to my ear CD's of early vintage completely lacked
> 'sweetness' and character but have improved over the years. I can't help
> but wonder if the same thing will be said for digital image capture.
>
>
> Charlie Silverman
>
> In a message dated 3/27/2012 12:53:31 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> thompsonkirk@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
> Last week someone mentioned the BW Polaroid film that was used for
> view-camera exposure testing, but allowed you to preserve the Polaroid
> print and even its negative. It yielded quite lovely tonal transitions –
> often better than the actual film exposure. Perhaps you can still see this
> in a scan of a 4x5 Polaroid print:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/thompsonkirk/6212011748/in/photostream
>
> (To Don Williams: The little print was scanned on the flatbed part of a
> Canon 9000F, and then enlarged. I still use it for that.)
>
> Kirk
> =
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