Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/03/06

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Subject: [Leica] Scanner comparison
From: csaganich at gmail.com (Chris Saganich)
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 23:32:05 -0500
References: <337114CF-4C19-40BD-BE5C-7DC19BB3A670@frozenlight.eu> <15107AD9-B3DA-4BD9-9FA2-5299CA7B5096@gmail.com>

On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Lluis Ripoll <lluisripollquerol at 
gmail.com>wrote:

> Nathan,
>
> I've take a while to examine your images and looked several times. IMO the
> third picture scannned with yhe Minolta Medium format is more sharp and
> crisp than the others, I appreciate this looking at the more fine
> structures. I presume that a better final opinion would be seen a printed
> picture. A different point if it pays invest in a film scanner, I agree 
> with
> you taht quality with the accesory is really good.
>
> Saludos
> Lluis
>
>
>
> El 05/03/2011, a las 18:37, Nathan Wajsman escribi?:
>
>
>  Yesterday, I received the MF film holders for my Epson flatbed from
>> betterscanning.com. They are better than the standard ones because they
>> include T-locks to keep the film flatter.
>>
>> A couple of weeks ago Michiel had kindly offered to scan one of my 6x9
>> negatives with his Minolta MF film scanner. So now I have 3 versions of 
>> the
>> same negative, one scanned with the Epson and its standard holders, one 
>> with
>> the new and improved holders, and one with the Minolta MF film scanner. 
>> The
>> comparison is here:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/belgiangator/scanner/
>>
>> If you click on the little rectangles, you will see a reasonably big image
>> (2000 pixels on the long side), so you should be able to judge the image
>> quality. All three scans have received the identical amount of unsharp
>> masking in Photoshop.
>>
>> My own conclusion is that the film scanner delivers slightly more
>> sharpness but the Epson more than holds its own when it comes to dynamic
>> range.
>>
>> FWIW, YMMV and all that.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Nathan
>>
>> Nathan Wajsman
>> Alicante, Spain
>> http://www.frozenlight.eu
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>>
>> YNWA
>>
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