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Originally Posted by gary
Hi H,
One of the reasons Kodachrome was so loved was because it was so forgiving
in its dynamic range, even more so when it was projected. The worse you could
do is over expose it but it was quite recoverable when underexposed.
Printing it, as opposed to projecting it, because of the nature of the print medium,
lost so much of the dynamic range of the image.
One can only imagine how good the original transparencies of these particular war
time images would be when projected on a screen.
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Actually, depending on the way these were scanned, we may be seeing them as good as or better than they would look projected. Print has a very limited dynamic range, but a modern IPS monitor can outperform a projection system, and we are effectively seeing them backlit as well.