Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/12/08

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Subject: RE: [Leica] RE: The endless nonsense about film vs. digital
From: "Phong" <phong@doan-ltd.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 16:49:16 -0500

Jim,

> 300mb files

This is a very generous size.  :-) Are they from 35mm film or 
medium format ?  and do you post-process these files ?

- - Phong

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Jim Brick
> Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2002 3:44 PM
> 
> My 20x24 & 30x40 optical prints are sharper (they're dead sharp!) than the 
> same film, scanned on a Tango drum scanner (300mb files), and printed on a 
> LightJet printer. The optical prints look "alive". The LightJet prints look 
> very good, but there is a telling difference. Of course (and not to start 
> another argument) the LightJet prints are on Fuji Crystal Archive (RA4 
> process) paper and the optical prints are Cibachrome Classic.
> 
> JMHPE (Just My Humble Personal Experience),
> 
> :-)
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
> At 02:23 PM 12/8/2002 -0500, Austin Franklin wrote:
> 
> > From my experience, this isn't even right.  I get sharper, more detailed,
> >prints from scanning film and printing on my inkjet printer with Piezo inks,
> >than I got from chemical prints...and yes, I used very high end glass
> >(Schneider) and printed from Hasselblad negatives.  At least this is true
> >for me for B&W.  I don't really do any color.
> >
> >Austin
> 
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