Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The Minolta MultiPro will do up to 40mm X 90 mm at a true optical 4800dpi (NOT interpolated), and 6cm X 9cm at 3200dpi, costs under 3K Gilbert On Monday, June 30, 2003, at 01:17 PM, George Lottermoser wrote: > leicachris@worldnet.att.net (Christopher Williams)6/28/03 > >> Sharpness is a big problem. The >> most >> I've managed to get is a okay 8x10 from 35mm. For MF and 4x5, grain >> and >> sharpness is excellent. > > So how can this be? If we can’t get a sharp scan off a 35mm frame; how > can it be sharp from any other film. I tend to agree with you that the > illusion of quality is there, but obviously we really aren’t getting > what we could from the med and lg format stuff with these scanners. > > And the xPan seems to fall between the cracks as not quite 35mm and > not quite med format. I went into the darkroom on Saturday to pull a > 20” print from an Ilford Delta 100 xPan neg and it simply left the > 2450 scan in the dust - no comparison. So for me to do this format > justice means paying big bucks for high end scans or shelling out huge > money for a flextight scanner. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html