On 12/21/2015 8:14 AM, Ken Norton wrote:
Tina wrote:
Nice grain!
Thank you. I didn't think it turned out half bad for a scan. DD-X is
really good with HP5+ and Delta 400 for making the grain really tight.
The smoothness is missing with the scan because the scanning process
turns what looks like continuous tone into binary.
You know, I wonder how much of all this, including optical work prints, may be a result of the Nikon scanner design with
semi-coherent light source. You treat the nature of the scans as a given, but it has a signature different than other
scanners.
My Canon FS4000, with its incoherent light source, just doesn't do that. Multiple passes, for example, while they do
slightly increase pixel level detail, if lens and technique are up to it, don't do much to grain.
This is a 100% sample of a 4000 dpi FS4000 scan, untouched after scanning. My best guess is 1964, Nikon Ftn; likely the
50/1.4 at some smallish aperture, from the DoF, in the sun. <http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=19382>
Unfortunately, I did this scanning in 2008, and my "filing system" of drifts of stuff in boxes, didn't immediately
reveal the original negs. The film is probably Plus-X. Certainly doesn't look like Tri-X, and I can't imagine what else
I might have been shooting back then. I'll likely find them again one of these days. I was meaning to scan more of the
old stuff from my student days.
In any case '60s medium speed film, and the grain is rather gentle. Cleans up
very nicely, should one wish to do so. :-)
And with the image presented as 1600 pixel width, and a 50% crop of the
original scan, this is getting close to 1:1 on screen.
OK, my scans are about 5500 pixels wide, half of which is 2750, so 1600 would be considerable downsampling. Are you
scanning at a lower resolution?
Non Edgy Moose
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