Scala vs scanned negs

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Jack Campin - bogus address - 24 Apr 2005 11:26 GMT

What can you do with Scala that you can't do by scanning a B&W
negative? Toning comes to mind, what else?

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Justin Thyme - 24 Apr 2005 21:57 GMT

> What can you do with Scala that you can't do by scanning a B&W
> negative? Toning comes to mind, what else?

Uhm... Project them!
Print them on Cibachrome (not sure you would want to, but you can).
Project them!
Make duplicate positives with more Scala, or make duplicate negatives with
any B&W neg film.
Project them!

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Michael Weinstein - 25 Apr 2005 02:04 GMT

>> What can you do with Scala that you can't do by scanning a B&W
>> negative? Toning comes to mind, what else?
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>> <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/> for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554 975
>> stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739 557

At the risk of being redundant:
PROJECT THEM!

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Stuart Droker - 27 Apr 2005 18:01 GMT

With Scala, you are working with an original positive with verturally no
grain. www.mainphoto.com processes Scala Slide Film

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