RE: filmscanners: Best film scanner, period!!!

["Austin Franklin" <darkroom@ix.netcom.com>]

> As I think I've posted before, I did a double blind shoot out with Leica
> and Nikon lenses (a 28mm 2.8 wide angle, a 135mm 2.8 tele and the 50mm
> 1.4 normal).  Each image was shot with one of these three lenses with
> both the Leica and the Nikon, on Kodachrome 25.
> 
> After the images were marked, they were placed in slide trays in random
> sequence, but next to one another, and projected with Navitar Gold
> projector lenses.
> 
> A group of 4 experienced photographers were asked to evaluate each pair
> of images and choose the one they preferred.  Consideration as given to
> sharpness, color "accuracy", overall contrast and exposure evenness, and
> the like.

Is doing this type of testing with projected slides really a "good" test?