I'm very much interested to see how sharp the grain as scanned by the
Minolta 5400. Is it possible for anyone who owns a Minolta 5400 to upload a
sample picture showing sharply the film grain just for evaluation purpose.
Of course, the image should be only a small crop of the whole picture.
Thanks.
Dado
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wilcox, Joel F" <joel-wilcox@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2004 9:44 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: Test scans from walt - minolta 5400
>
> I'm not sure I follow this discussion. One of my favorite tools in the
> darkroom was a grain focus finder. It would magnify the projected image
> and you would focus until the grain was really sharp. Then you knew you
> were there.
>
> Film has grain. All film. Find the grain, you got focus. Scan at 2700
> ppi, 4000, 5400 -- when you arrive at the portal of truth, you find
> grain.
>
> Am I missing something? Are you all really trying to say Walt's scanner
> accentuates grain or something like that?
>
> Back in the days when Polaroid and Nikon were the only players in the
> film scanner business and users would bash each other, one complaint
> Polaroid users had about Nikon is that the Nikon-type sensor accentuates
> grain. Nikon users complained that the Polaroid scan was soft.
>
> Is that what this discussion is about?
>
> Joel W.
>
> > Hi Walt
> > At 5400 dpi it is without a doubt grain you are seeing!
> > Even Fuji Astia with the best RMS rating shows grain at 5400
> > dpi but when
> > the image is reduced to web size it shows amazing detail and
> > graduation in
> > tone and colour rendition!
>
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