> > From: "Rob Studdert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/09/26 Mon AM 02:02:51 GMT > To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net > Subject: RE: anybody still shoot film?
> Theoretically yes, practically no. Unless like others have said you can > afford > to buy a 12000 dpi drum scanner or alternately afford to pay ~US$50 per scan > for the privilege. And then it wouldn't be usable unless all > colour/level/gamma > adjustment could be perfected at the point of capture. This is what I find paradoxical about the whole "digital revolution". On one hand, there are statements like the above - 12,000dpi to extract anything like the full information from a 35mm frame. On the other, there are the "6mp is enough" brigade. I know they are not exclusive. > Back to the practicality of the issue: suppose some D3200 were shot at and > processed to yield 1600ISO or higher then scanned at sufficient resolution to > reveal individual grains (2000dpi+). The resultant image will look and behave > like a lithograph. IOW no grey-scale adjustment/correction can be > accomplished > on such an image until the individually rendered grains are integrated to > form > an apparent grey-scale image. That I understand. Is the ISO scale linear wrt grain size? If so, I assume that to get the same effect from a 25ISO frame you will need to scan at 128,000dpi. mike ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.ntlworld.com Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software Visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information
