Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/04/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You will be driven mad looking for the sharpness developer/film combo and then the best scanner and ... Shoot film for certain qualities lacking in digital, whatever they may be, but chasing tangible qualities such as resolution is probably a loss cause. Of course you can pick up a $200 Yashicamat and some Acros100 and THAT should give the M8 a run for the money. For M9, move to a Hasselblad CM or a Mamiya 7. Or just go nuts with a cheap 4x5. The tonal range will any deficiency in resolution :-) On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 9:14 PM, Howard Ritter <hlritter at bex.net> wrote: > As my work schedule slows down towards retirement, I seem to have way too > much time on my hands. So I decided to pursue a question I've been > wondering about for a long time. I got out some cameras and lenses and a > couple rolls of film and shot some photos of the house across the pond, > scanned the film, and cropped down to the small central portion of the > images to compare. I'd read that the best general-pupose emulsions resolve > as high as 150 line pairs/mm, which corresponds to 300 pixels/mm, or 7200 x > 10800 pixels in a FF sensor. That's around 80 Mpx, which is also in the > same range for estimates of the information content that I've seen quoted > for 35mm film. This led me to expect that digital would fall short of film, > which puzzled me a bit as I have been not at all impressed by the technical > performance of the slides and negs I've been scanning. > > I picked Fujicolor 200 and Tri-X to compare with the D800, M typ 240, M8, > and NEX-7, 35mm lenses for the FF cameras, and 24mm for the M8 and NEX-7. I > also shot the same scene with both the M8 and NEX-7 at 35mm so I could > compare performance at the same image scale on the sensor. > > Suffice it to say that I was surprised by the results, linked below. Sure > wish I could try Panatomic-X! > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/Res+Test+Crops/ > > I was also surprised to discover that even the highest pixel-count FF > sensor yet available does not match the capabilities of the lenses we use. > I've posted to that effect before, but here are the images to illustrate > the point. > > Comments and corrections of my misconceptions invited & appreciated. > > --howard > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> // http://facebook.com/richardmanphoto