[Leica] Why a digital M

[masonster at gmail.com (David Mason)]

Yeah, I have to agree with that - except that sometimes I like grain
in a photo. To me the bug drawback with film scanning is the clean-up
work I have to do in photoshop - dust, color-cast, etc. Of course, I
don't have a very nice scanner either ;)

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 08:14:15 +0100, Frank Dernie
<frank.dernie@btinternet.com> wrote:
> Yea but look at the results - scanned film is nowhere near as good as
> you write. I use a Nikon 8000 scanner and scanned film 35 is very
> comparable to my 6mpxl EOS, better in some ways, worse in others.
> Scanned 6x7 negs have more resolution but are still inferior in some
> ways because of the grain.
> Frank
> 
> On 14 Jul, 2004, at 02:12, Frank Filippone wrote:
> 
> > It was measured as 10MP per square inch... and a Pixel defined as in
> > any
> > other graphics business. .... as a representation of RGB ( or other
> > color
> > coordinate) ....  SO it is 10MP/sqIn * 1 1/2 sqIn/Neg * 3 Colors/pixel
> > for a
> > total of 45MP ( as measured by the marketing companies trying to sell
> > pixels
> > rather than perfrormance) for a 35mm Neg... and that was a bunch of
> > years
> > ago with lower grade film than Velvia or Tmx100......
> >
> > Frank Filippone
> > red735i@earthlink.net
> >
> >
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