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Would making a "test shot" be sensible, in which the test shot was composed mostly of the sky (if that were going to be the noisy area in the real shot), or a close-up of some object in the frame which might be noisy (the exterior of a car, which has some detail, but also has some medium-s...

In many universities, especially in Medical/Dental/Nursing/Health schools, there are many instructors who still use Kodachrome slides for lectures. I've tried photographing those slides (both via scanning the slide, and via taking a pic of a slide projected onto a screen in an auditorium), and then ...