[filmscanners] RE: shoot first, fix it later

["Austin Franklin" <austin@darkroom.com>]

> Large format gives you better shadows mainly because a bellows
> does a much better job of
> controling internal reflections than the surfaces in a smaller
> camera do, resulting in less
> veiling glare, and more differentiation in your shadows.

Do you have any actual proof of this, or any reference you can point me to
that shows this to be true?  I understand the premise, but I just don't
believe it.  I shoot 35/MF and have shot a lot of LF, and have not found
what you say to be true for the cameras I've used.

> Regarding an AD page being at most 4000 x 6000 - yeah, you can
> get that resolution out of
> 35mm, but the pixels are not 100% good information--at that kind
> of resolution some portion
> of the information in each dot is grain not to mention blur--even
> if your scanner really is
> optically resolving 4000dpi , it probably isn't at anywhere near
> 100% MTF.

That depends on what film you are talking about.  For most films above 160
ISO I'd agree, but I don't agree with that for a lot of the 100 ISO films I
use, and I scan at 5080.

Austin

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