----- Original Message ----- From: "Austin Franklin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 6:59 AM Subject: [filmscanners] RE: Re:Digital PIC
> With all due respect, you are wrong for once... Once? You haven't been around long, eh? ;-) > The newest LF digital backs are 12000 x 15990 pixels producing a file of > 1.1GB in 48bit. It is the Better Light Super 8K-2 digital back. > Its smaller > sibling, the Super 6K-2 produces 9000 x 12000 pixels. Furthermore, they go > from ISO 200-3200 in 1/10th of f-stop increments. Quite impressive! > > Phase One has the PowerPhase FX which gives you 10500 x 12.600 pixels, > albeit only in 24bit - a file of 380mb. Aren't those scanning backs? If so, sorry, Anthony was right, as he said "ONE-SHOT" backs... Austin ------------------------ Austin, Antony unilaterally changed the parameters for the discussion to one shot backs - probably unintentionally.... However, here is my original posting for your info, and, as far as I can see, there's no mention or qualification in it refering to either scanning backs, one shot backs or even three shot backs. > The medium/big format professional digital > camera backs are now approaching or even > surpassing 35mm film quality. ---------------------------------------------- To which Anthony replied: >None of the LF or MF one-shot backs comes anywhere close to film quality. >The latest PhaseOne H20 back for MF yields 4080x4080 pixels, or less than >one-fourth of a medium-resolution scan of film in the same format. ---------------------------------------------------------------- To which I replied: > With all due respect, you are wrong for once... > The newest LF digital backs are 12000 x 15990 pixels producing a file of > 1.1GB in 48bit. It is the Better Light Super 8K-2 digital back. > Its smaller sibling, the Super 6K-2 produces 9000 x 12000 pixels. Furthermore, they go > from ISO 200-3200 in 1/10th of f-stop increments. Quite impressive! > Phase One has the PowerPhase FX which gives you 10500 x 12.600 pixels, > albeit only in 24bit - a file of 380mb. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------- I suggest we leave the dead horse, hide the whip and get on with less OT matters..... :-) Happy Easter Monday Preben ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
