{"id":158,"date":"2006-04-29T18:07:25","date_gmt":"2006-04-29T23:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/29\/why-slides-reason\/"},"modified":"2006-04-29T18:08:14","modified_gmt":"2006-04-29T23:08:14","slug":"why-slides-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/29\/why-slides-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are we still shooting slide film? answered by Ken Wronkiewicz"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wireheadarts.com\/\">Ken Wronkiewicz<\/a> posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wireheadarts.com\/blog5.html\">rebuttal<\/a> to my recent article, <a href=\"http:\/\/photondetector.com\/articles\/why-slides\/\">Why are we still shooting slide film?<\/a>, bringing up something I completely failed to consider: slide film has a greater Drange (density range) than print film does. This means that while you give up dynamic range, you get a significantly better contrast range in what you do capture.<\/p>\n<p>In light of this excellent point, I&#8217;ll keep shooting slides in low-contrast lighting such as overcast days. You can always get rid of unwanted contrast after the fact, but you can&#8217;t add it if you didn&#8217;t capture it in the first place.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wireheadarts.com\/blog5.html\">Check out Ken&#8217;s complete explanation<\/a> at wireheadarts.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Wronkiewicz posted a rebuttal to my recent article, Why are we still shooting slide film?, bringing up something I completely failed to consider: slide film has a greater Drange (density range) than print film does. This means that while you give up dynamic range, you get a significantly better contrast range in what you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[346,599,1613,1778],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-op-ed","tag-chrome","tag-film","tag-slide","tag-transparency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->