I would venture to suggest that a 3-minute exposure using the same exposure
settings but with today's equipment will result in the same detail.
Maris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lynn Allen" <ktrout@hotmail.com>
To: <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 10:54 AM
Subject: RE: filmscanners: Scanner resolution (was: BWP seeks scanner)
| Tony wrote:
|
| >My personal quality stance is that without special care, most 35mm images
| >neither deserve nor well sustain enlargement beyond 15x10 by any route
| >unless unusually large viewing distances are involved, and I most often
| >print at A4. I like 'sharp' but don't much like grain in most images, and
| >4,000ppi doesn't leave me with any grief for whatever it misses - but nor
| >did 2,700. However I value more the smoother tonality of 4000ppi than the
| >minor increase in sharpness of fine detail. I guess I'm trying to say
that
| > what is 'enough' is individual, depends on what you want to do with it,
| >and how absolutist your dedication to every last lppm.
|
|
| Atlthough this isn't what Tony's writing about, I'm going to "kidnap" his
| thoughts on this to revisit what I said a few days ago, re flatbed scans
vs.
| filmscans, vis a vis resolution and detail. A year ago I had the
priveledge
| and oportunity to flatbed-scan a series of pictures (prints) made 130
years
| ago with cherry-wood cameras and very slow anastigmat lenses on (probably)
| glass wet-plates, printed on a size-for-size format. The detail was
| incredible!
|
| I now have the oportunity to scan modern color prints made with several
| smaller-format 35mm &tc cameras, two of which I closely know the lensatic
| performance of. The comparisson suffers. The old, slower lenses show their
| "stuff," and the smaller format tends to drop some of the detail. This
leads
| me to think that the lensatics and medium of the target picture is *still*
| more important than whatever scanner you use, if the scanner is compentent
| in the first place. It drives me up the wall every day, but "c'est la
| guerre"--that's how it is. OTOH, it wouldn't have been practical to do a
| 3-minute pose when my daughter was playing basketball. ;-)
|
| Best regards--LRA
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