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Re: filmscanners: Best film scanner, period!!!
Austin writes:
> Why do you consider 3.4 "too low", and for what
> is it too low?
I scan slides.
> I don't mean this to come across snide, but do
> you actually know what a density range of 0-3.4
> means?
Yes. It means 12-bit output, which gives a _theoretical_ dynamic range of
4096:1, or log(4096)=3.6, for density range. (A range of 3.4 actually
corresponds to about 2500:1.)
Unfortunately, actually achieving this with the scanner is much more difficult.
My LS-2000 is just barely able to extract most of the detail from a slide, but
it is very noisy in the shadows and tends to blow out in the highlights.
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