Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]How much does a 10000dpi scanner like that cost? And does it hook up to a desktop computer? At 11:17 PM 6/11/98 , Patrick G. Sobalvarro wrote: >TEAShea@aol.com wrote: >> >> Some people seem to think that they can demonstrate the quality of a lens by >> photos posted on the Internet. While one may be able to tell the difference >> between a disposable camera and a current generation Summicron 50 2.0, it is >> simply not possible to distinguish between higher quality lenses by this >> method. > >Tom, I'm not so sure that this is uniformly the case. There are some >very high-end film scanners that can do 10,000 dpi optical (the >Linotype-Hell S3900, for example). Most of us are not willing to pay >what it costs to have our film scanned on these scanners, but their >resolution is sufficient to capture very fine detail -- it's somewhere >in the neighborhood of what Technical Pan can resolve. If one has two >exposures that show differences in lens quality, then one can show that >on the Web by showing small portions of the scan on a Web page. > >-Patrick >