Film is grainy, even with fine grain films, and black and white films are
much grainier than color films. My scanner resolves the grain of Velvia, but
it is much finer grained than the black and white photo I showed here.
--
Chris Crawford
Fine Art Photography
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On 3/14/09 11:16 PM, "C.H.Ling" <ch_photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I trend to agree with your assessment on the 22mp 35mm DSLR equal medium
> format system in resolution but I found the shadow details of DSLR much
> better than film as the film grain at shadow is quite serious. Here is a
> 21MP test shot for reference:
>
> http://www.accura.com.hk/temp/IMG_0917.JPG (7MB)
>
> It was taken with an OM 50/1.4 at F4. Digital is just so.... clean!
>
> BTW, I don't have a good 4000dpi scanner for MF, the sharpness of your 2X
> image is good but the scene missing some fine details to check and the image
> looks quite grainly. Here is a scan of 645 image with my Epson 4850 at
> 4000dpi, Film: Velvia 50.
>
> Full resized
>
> http://www.accura.com.hk/temp/O6_002a.jpg (204KB)
>
> 100% cropped
>
> http://www.accura.com.hk/temp/O6_002c.jpg (364KB)
>
> I believe a real 4000dpi scanner will do much better.
>
> Oh! I forgot to mention, it was taken with an Olympus Six III A.
>
> C.H.Ling
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Crawford"
>
>> I scan these 6x6 negs at 4000 dpi all the time, and yeah they look grainy
>> at
>> 100% even with films like Acros that have fine grain. In prints, however,
>> the grain isn't visible. I usually don't print huge, 11x11 if I print the
>> whole square, or around 11x14 if I crop to a rectangle (equal to 14x14
>> square). I've done a few 16x20s and they looked incredible too, beating
>> any
>> digital camera I have tried (I'm sure the 50mp medium format systems beat
>> my
>> results; the 22mp ones based on 35mm slrs might equal it, but are out of
>> reach financially for me as well).
>>
>> That wurlitzer building is cool! I like that shot. I actually found out
>> that
>> GE has a sign similar to the one in Ft. Wayne (but larger) on one of their
>> buildings in Schenectady! Looks just like the one here though.
>>
>> I will have to rescan my shot at 1000dpi and see how it looks, I already
>> put
>> the neg away and went on to scanning some other shots.
>>
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