Re: More Log, Lin, LUTs, and their particulars...

It would have more contrast when you do that because you're raising the interpreted black point and lowering the white point - in effect, expanding out your image, adding contrast. What you seem to be ignoring is that film - which the LUT Steve supplies is intended to mimic - has a toe and a shoulder, in other words, a soft falloff at the top and the bottom of the scale. That is one of the characteristics that gives film the look it has, as well as its extreme tolerance for overexposure. If you happen to "like" the look of very white whites (i.e., clipped or close to it) and very black blacks (i.e., the same thing) on an electronic monitor, that's fine, but you're not going to get that on film - and if you're using a film emulation LUT, you don't want to, because it would no longer be an accurate print preview.