It's interesting to look back on film images and compare the dynamic range, the color, and the detail in the highlights and shadows with digital images. When we were all immersed in film photography, our vocabulary didn't include HDR, RAW files, focus stacking, and all the rest of the terms we now use with such familiarity. I took this picture of Rotorua, the amazing geyser area on the North Island of New Zealand, in 1980 with Kodak Ektachrome 64. It was a contrasty, backlit situation, and several areas of the image are dark with no detail. Had I increased the exposure, more of the highlights --specifically the backlit spray -- would have blown out completely. We have tools now to deal with contrast, but back then we were at the mercy of old technology. My settings with the Mamiya RB 67 were unrecorded; if I were to guess, I would say they were 1/400, f/5.6, and the film was 64 ISO. I still like the shot, but it would be very interesting to take the same image today and compare that with the film version.
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