Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]So I have a couple of questions related to film scanning / printing, which I hope that somebody here can answer. Given that I have TMAX-100 negatives (taken with my Leica, just to keep a little on topic) what value if any is there going to be in having the new minolta scanner at 5400DPI (theoretical)? Taking into account Nyquist would suggest that I can resolve something close to 2700 lines per inch (obviously there is degradation from the scanner lense etc. which will make the achieved resolution much lower) Do you think that this is enough to acurately resolve the actual grian patterns rather than digital 'grain'? On printing I have both wet darkroom and digital darkroom prints of the same B&W image. Whilst it is true that the digital image has greater percieved sharpness (I believe due to Unsharp Mask filtering) It also appears to have information that is clearly not contained in the darkroom print (nor negative). BTW the dark room print was grain focused and printed to the same size ~8x10. The question is how happy are you with the way that upsampling and sharpening are creating data that does not exist in the source image? Thanks in advance for any answers. Michael - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html