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Subject: [Leica] My father, rescanned
From: chandos at cox.net (Chandos Michael Brown)
Date: Mon Jan 31 20:08:06 2005

I don't recall seeing this before, Peter.  The FS-4000 is incomparably
superior to the commercial scan; even so, I look at an image like this
and curse the culture that worships overhead lighting: flat,
remorseless, and utterly indifferent.  We all look like the pickled
frogs we once spiked to the wax matrix of dissecting trays.
 
Imagine this gesture in the oblique light of a north facing window.

Cheers!

Chandos


-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+cmbrow=wm.edu@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+cmbrow=wm.edu@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Peter
Klein
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 7:58 PM
To: lug@leica-users.org; leica@freelists.org; cvug@cameraquest.org
Subject: [Leica] My father, rescanned

I've posted this picture before.  The past few days I've been housebound

with a nasty digestive "issue," so I had a bit of time to fool with the 
picture.

A local camera shop developed the negs in Xtol and scanned them on a 
Noritsu scanner at 1544x1042. Like all photofinishers, they juice up the

contrast a bit too much on the scanner.  I rescanned the Tri-X neg on my

Canon FS-4000.  While I was at it, I posted a comparison between the two

scans.  There are two pictures at standard Web-page resolution, and two 
little snippets at 1:1, the Noritsu enlarged to a similar size.  M6TTL, 
50/1.5 Nokton, probably wide open at 1/60.

http://users.2alpha.com/~pklein/family/06Milt.htm

Verdict:  The low-res Noristsu scans are OK for a 5x7 if they don't
totally 
blow the whites.  For an 8x10 or bigger, I need to scan them myself.

--Peter

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