I just scanned a K25 slide that I took several years ago in the
Bob Marshall Wilderness of Sunburst Lake. This was done on an
ancient Nikon Coolscan II and took a total of four passes to get
done. (the slide was too contrasty for one pass).
I worked and worked it in PWP and got, perhaps, the best scan
I've ever had--sharpness wise. Now, this is a 2700 dpi
scanner--not exactly earth-shaking in the resolution
department--and I've fought the sharpness from it from day one.
It never came close to capturing half the detail from the slide.
I'll have to check, but I think Sir Hamrick must have improved
something in the latest version of Vuescan.
Well, the photo was taken with the 35/shift lens and all of the
best-practices utilized for maximum sharpness. With a touch of
border cropping in there, the image is 3565x2377 pixels.
LOOK MA! NO ANTI-ALIASING FILTER!!!!!
You can make out the tiniest details. Rocks, tree branches,
wavelets, etc. I can only imagine what a 5400 dpi or drum
scanner could do with this image. But in reality, with the 4x
overscan I probably did pretty well.
No, grain isn't an issue. The only noise visible in the print
is caused by the scanner itself.
Velvia is good, but not THIS good. The E-1 is good, but
definitely not this good. Remind me again why K25 was
discontinued? Oh, and remind me again why I traded off my
35/shift lens?
A scaled down version of this image will appear on my homepage
sometime tonight when I update the website.
AG
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