Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/08/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]OK, 13"x19" is not much of a magnification. If you have seen no better then what you have is good, on the other hand once you have seen what is possible.... I know what I have seen;-) john ________________________________________ A film scanner is certainly necessary for most 35mm scanning uses but flatbeds have been often used the whole time for much more medium format and sheet film uses. One can consider a medium format scanner to be a bit of a high end piece of equipment. Plenty of photographers I've known have got by without one over the digital first decade.. If it turns out I'm making mural sized prints or some other thing in which my results seem to be lacking from other stuff im seeing I'll look into medium format film scanners. In the time being I've made hundreds of scans from my Hasselblads and Rolleiflex negs and slides and made 13x19's from them from day one. And my first scanner, a Umax had a fraction of the specs the one I'm using now has, an Epson. Even the Umax I almost never used a full capacity or even close. It had a SCSI interface! Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > > All that film quality but only a flatbed scanner? Using my Minolta film > scanner the gradation was good but sharpness was nowhere close to my M9 > when I > scanned my 6x6 'blad negs in..... > > john > > -----Original Message----- > > I have my Hasselblads back now after 6 years in NY without them for the > most > part. I looked up the 120 and 220 offerings at B&H and its going to be no > problem. Replacing my tuner at my right with my Epson flatbed. And I'm > ready > to rock and roll. My Planar T* 3.5/100 Cfi is on my CM and my ELM is > recharging. I have a 180 Planar and a 120 macro Planar . And a 60 and a 50 > Distagon. An assortment of backs plus a 70mm one which might make a nice > paperweight as 70mm film (70 on a roll easy to remember) is no longer made > for > the Hasselblad backs. > > > I think its the 100 which is going to give me a real edge. > I think like shooting a 60 on a 35mm camera. > http://lenses.zeiss.com/photo/en_DE/products/classics/hasselblad/500_series/ > planart35100cfi.html or > http://tinyurl.com/d2y8hpf > > > Mark William Rabiner >