[Leica] Scanner comparison

[lluisripollquerol at gmail.com (Lluis Ripoll)]

Nathan,

I've take a while to examine your images and looked several times. IMO  
the third picture scannned with yhe Minolta Medium format is more  
sharp and crisp than the others, I appreciate this looking at the more  
fine structures. I presume that a better final opinion would be seen a  
printed picture. A different point if it pays invest in a film  
scanner, I agree with you taht quality with the accesory is really good.

Saludos
Lluis



El 05/03/2011, a las 18:37, Nathan Wajsman escribi?:

> Yesterday, I received the MF film holders for my Epson flatbed from  
> betterscanning.com. They are better than the standard ones because  
> they include T-locks to keep the film flatter.
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> A couple of weeks ago Michiel had kindly offered to scan one of my  
> 6x9 negatives with his Minolta MF film scanner. So now I have 3  
> versions of the same negative, one scanned with the Epson and its  
> standard holders, one with the new and improved holders, and one  
> with the Minolta MF film scanner. The comparison is here:
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/belgiangator/scanner/
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> If you click on the little rectangles, you will see a reasonably big  
> image (2000 pixels on the long side), so you should be able to judge  
> the image quality. All three scans have received the identical  
> amount of unsharp masking in Photoshop.
>
> My own conclusion is that the film scanner delivers slightly more  
> sharpness but the Epson more than holds its own when it comes to  
> dynamic range.
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> FWIW, YMMV and all that.
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
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