Great news - another Reala user! The more the merrier. It is a very fine film, low grain when properly exposed, very wide exposure latitude, scans well and gives lovely tonal differentiation IMHO (see recent AP landscape supplement, P13,14 for some of my scans)
The only thing it doesn't do is pump up a drab scene, but it does do intense colour when there is some:
I have found (like many people on this forum) that Peak Imaging are very good at D&P, while not the cheapest. I get them to print the roll to help me chose which frames to scan.
I use a Nikon Coolscan V and have no complaints to make and just two observations: - it doesn't quite scan the whole width (across the strip) of the exposed frame (dunno why), so a 3:2 crop isn't quite 100%. Anybody help here? - it automatically removes too much orange cast and I have to reduce blue and green a little in the computer to rebalance the colour (using the print as a guide). I assume that Reala has less base colour than normal.
Have fun!
-------------------- There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after
that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
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