This didn't start out as a film vs digital comparison but a scanned film vs digital one.
So both images have hard pixels. In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arthur Entlich) wrote: > > > David J. Littleboy wrote: > > > > The question is what the cutoff point is. It looks to me that 35mm > > film is > > worth about 9MP, not 24MP. Most people comparing the 1Ds to 35mm film > > find > > the 1Ds winning hands down. There is a question as to how much more > > information a 5080 dpi scanner gets out of a 35mm frame than a 4000 > > dpi > > scanner. I suspect that it's not enough of a difference to be > > significant. > > (None of the Minolta 5400 scans of actual images I've seen showed > > significant improvement over 4000 dpi scans, although the test chart > > images > > look a lot better.) > > > > David J. Littleboy > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Tokyo, Japan > > > > I think this is probably true, due to the "cutoff" of the human eye and > brain. Basically, for the size of prints most people produce, there > probably isn't much to be gained by going above 4000 ppi scans, although > I can see what's missing in a 4000 ppi scan versus the original image > looked over with a loupe. > > However, I'd like to see what happens with a four foot wide poster print > from a 35mm film scan (with a drum scanner) and a 9 MP digital image. > > The problem with the digicam image is that at the point that pixels > become visible, then our eye starts to object due to the recognizable > sharp and gridlike pixel edges. At that point, film grain (dye clouds) > becomes more acceptable, because it is analog (random placement, size > and overlap) which our eyes find more pleasing. Our world is full of > analog visual "noise", even our eyes produce it, so we learn to ignore > it, but sharp edged square cornered patches of color are pretty obvious > to us. It is the reason camouflage works so well, our eyes and brain > don't register ill-defined edges of similar colors well. > > Art ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
