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Originally Posted by CK1
the problem with conversion is that the original is NOT digital. however the final print comes out, that is what you have to work with. unless you go back to the negatives or use slides, what you see is what you get.
Slides were more popular with photographers for that reason. you could could improve the quality of the image as you procesed it into an actual print. and why slide scanner are still very popular and much more expensive (compared to flat bed scanners) because is a nitch marget and you get better results.
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With conversion you are still able to use any of the programs you would use if the image was purely digital, from Picasa to MS Paint to PhotoShop and so on, so adjusting saturation, sharpness, contrast, cleaning up red-eye, digital airbrushing, and other image manipulations are still applicable. And with the scanners I'm not talking flat bed, strictly back-lit scanners that would be used on either 35mm film or slides, or in some cases on up to medium-format images (120 or 220). If you do convert from film to digital, going with the higher resolution is almost always the best way to go, especially if its something you really care about (just as using a camera with higher pixel resolution is always the better way to go if you really want to capture an exceptional image). As an example, I offer Rob's earliest work which, if memory serves, was done using 35mm (I'm not sure if film negative or slide) and converted to digital. Its been a long time since I used Kodachrome, but to be honest when I used it, I used it primarily because the colours were richer, but then to show them you needed access to a projector (and I was never satisfied with prints made from slides as opposed to from negatives--different formats, different papers, different results. When I carried around my first portfolio, it was comprised of 8x10 transparencies, but that wasn't as easy to show as 8x10 prints from negatives, or 8x10 prints from digitally converted negatives are--it was harder for someone else to visualize the end product, I guess. Nowadays, I noticed, many photographers carry around multiple formats in their portfolios--prints, transparencies, slides made either direct or printed from digital & on a master CD--that way the prospective client can see an image in whatever format they find easier, and it also shows the client that the photog knows her/his way around a lab, traditional dark room as well as the PC "darkroom".