I'm just impressed you could get the Mark II. It is alway s backordered when I check the usual suspects (B&H, etc.) That is the body that will get me to give up film. That, and I can't get quick turn E-6 anymore. ------Original Message------ From: Norm Carver Sender: filmscanners_o [email protected] To: [email protected] ReplyTo: f [email protected] Subject: [filmscanners] film scanning: new option Sent: Jan 18, 2009 2:01 PM
Since I have hundreds of 6x6 negs and color to digitize and am frustated by the slowness of film scanners in general I have recently begun copying negs with my new Canon 5D-I I (22 meg). After some comparitive tests with 4000dpi scans on the Nikon 8000 I can say the follwing: 1. B& W 300dpi prints on Epson 3800 enlarged to equal 50" x 50" are indistinguishable 2. The copies tend to be sharper corner to corner than scans (used Canon 50mm macro @ f11) 3. The time is cut to at least 1/3 (there is a slgh t more batch processing time going from RAW to Mon 4. T here is no doubt the scans have more data and I would go that way for difficult images or huge prints. So am I delusional according died-in-the-wool scanners? Norm Carver [email protected] ------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------- ------ Unsubscribe by mail to [email protected], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmsca nners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or bo dy ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [email protected], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
