David, Remember that this discussion started with my attempt to explain why Getty and other high end stock photography houses might insist on professional drum scans over high end prosumer CDD scanners. The main justification is that they know the quality that their clients demand but they do not know the exact range of uses and sizes that will be used by the clients who license the image or if and how the image may be cropped when used at the users given enlargement size.
We are not talking about the differences you might see at the size enlargements that you prefer or about your tastes concerning grain and grain structure in an image. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David J. > Littleboy > Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 12:22 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [filmscanners] Re: film and scanning vs digital photography > > > From: "gary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>> > > I suspect the "generations" effect is why it takes less resolution in a > DSLR to be equivalent to film. That is, the EOS-1Ds Mark II, at > 16Mpixels, is considered to be as good as scanned film, which generally > exceeds 30MPixels. > > I saw a website that compared drum to a dedicated film scanner, with > the > claim that you really don't get the full stated resolution with a film > scanner. > <<<<<<<<<<<<<< > > I've never seen a drum vs. 4000 ppi Nikon comparison that I thought > showed a > ntoiceable or significant advantage to the drum scan. The differences > are > very much on the order of counting angels on heads of pins. > > And the 12.7 and 16MP Canons look a lot more like 645 than 35mm, in > terms of > print quality at 12x18. (This guy is printing a lot bigger than I > would, and > thus is agonizing over really minor differences.) > > http://www.shortwork.net/equip/review-1Ds-SQ-scantech/ > > David J. Littleboy > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tokyo, Japan > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------- > 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
