I believe that Tim Parkin is a PDML subscriber, so maybe he can illuminate this a bit more, but on Twitter yesterday he pointed to some extreme crop comparisons between: Nikon D800E with a Zeiss 25mm lens and a Mamiya 7 (6x7) with a 50mm lens with Velvia 50 and Adox CMS 20. The results might surprise you.
Here is the whole scene: http://static.timparkin.co.uk/static/tmp/fullframe.jpg Here is the D800E (top) and the Velvia (bottom) http://static.timparkin.co.uk/static/tmp/compared-with-clean-velvia.jpg And here is the D800E (top) and the Adox CMS 20 (bottom) http://static.timparkin.co.uk/static/tmp/compared-with-clean-cms20.jpg I suppose that there could be some debate on the differences in the lenses and I'm not sure if the film was scanned (or with what). But I find it interesting that film can still exceed digital at exteme crops/very large printing sizes and only by going to a 6x7 size over what is considered the state of the art full frame sensor camera available today. I think the film wins by a substantial margin. (Keeping in mind that this is just not *any* film). For most of us, this is academic, since we rarely need such extreme crops or print at such sizes, but I find it interesting nonetheless. -- "Photography is a Bastard left by Science on the Doorstep of Art" - Peter Galassi -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
