National Geographic too, while having already published entire
assignments shoot in digital, tends to prefer drum scanned film, even
though it's 35mm.
On Aug 25, 2005, at 5:22 PM, Walt Wayman wrote:
> Well, folks, so much for that bright idea. My Epson 3200 scanner,
> while good enough to make MF scans that turn into tack-sharp,
> grainless 8x10 and 11x14 prints on the Epson Stylus 2200, just isn't
> good enough to capture the fine detail I can plainly see with even an
> 8X loupe, much less what's apparent with a 20X loupe. This is why I
> still have a real darkroom.
>
> I suppose, after making a 3200 dpi scan of the whole negative or
> tranny on the Epson, I could cut the film up into pieces that would
> fit into the Minolta 5400 in order to dig out more detail for the
> extreme blow-ups of the teeny-weenie parts. But it just ain't worth
> the effort. I've got more fun things to do in my retirement. Anyway,
> it gets tiresome always being right and boring proving it. :-)
>
> I'll rest my case on the fact that Sports Illustrated, with
> unimaginable resources, including the finest in digital gear, still
> shoots the swimsuit issue on film with a Mamiya RZ67. Maybe they just
> don't know any better.
>
> As for round tuits, we have several. For some reason, the people who
> know us best give them to us. Why is that? I wonder.
>
> Walt
>
> --
> "Anything more than 500 yards from
> the car just isn't photogenic." --
> Edward Weston
>
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> What are you scanning with? Also, it seems to me that you were
>> looking
>> for a round tuit several months ago. Did you never find one or have
>> you
>> already used it up?
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
>>
>> Walt Wayman wrote:
>>
>>> I've toyed with the notion of posting some stuff I recently shot only
>> semi-seriously with the RB67, including full frame scans, accompanied
>> by big
>> blow-ups of teeny-weenie parts thereof, just to prove that anybody
>> who says any
>> 35mm-based DSLR is the equal of MF film doesn't know their ass from
>> their elbow.
>>>
>>> But I'm lazy and haven't got a round tuit just yet. But maybe soon,
>>> since
>> some of these idiotarians are starting to piss me off.
>>
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