[Leica] The final gasp of MF film?

[mfsacca at sover.net (Michael Sacca)]

It's funny, I've been considering selling my Mamiya7 for a year or so,  
having lately composed the blurb for this list. I recently did some  
shooting with it and decided (again) to not let it go just yet. It's a  
pleasure to use and I do appreciate the lens sharpness and neg size.

At any rate, your images Marty are great to behold. Thanks for sharing  
those.

Michael

On Feb 15, 2012, at 7:23 PM, lug-request at leica-users.org wrote:

>
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 6:47 AM, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz>  
> wrote:
>> I have been scanning my Hasselblad negs from years ago (about 7000  
>> pixels sq and 280MB files). Doing the B&W looks good but the colour  
>> transparency does not look much different to M9. The odd thing is  
>> (most of these were SWC/M, 50mm and 150mm black T*) that they did  
>> not look much different when I printed them but once scanned the  
>> SWC/M stuff is way sharper...
>
> I noticed something similar.  Rolleiflexes have great Zeiss lenses, we
> all know that.  But one of the things I found when I fuirst used a
> really well aligned point source enlarger with an Apo El-Nikkor, and
> later with Leaf 45 and FlexTight scanners is that modern Hasselblad
> Zeiss 80mm f2.8 Planars are much better lenses than the old Planars in
> Rolleis.  This figures, because not only are the designs and materials
> 30-40 years newer, but the Hasselblad lenses are a lot bigger and
> permit different engineering solutions to the optical problems.
>
> My guess is that you never noticed much difference when wet printing
> either because you didn't enlarge enough, or your enlarging system had
> enough factors to degrade the image quality (lens, alignment,
> stability) to a point where they were about equivalent.  Scanning made
> me a better wet printer, paradoxical, really.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/freakscene/Russia/Kitchen.jpg.html
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/freakscene/Russia/Kizhi_II.jpg.html
>
> Marty