Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Adam, My experience is not that wide in scanning but I have scanned slides from Kodachrome (mostly) Provia, Provia F (in 120 size) and the 200asa any make, usually Kodak print film which I keep in the fridge for any of the kids to help themselves to. The worst for grain aliasing, Austin convinced me that that must be what I have, is the print film. Complete rubbish and clearly inferior to my old 3.3 megapixel Canon EOS D30 SLR. Scans on MF from Provia F are remarkable. I have an A3 print of hot air balloons flying low just after dawn on which detail can be seen on the tiny moon in the background, despite the original being taken using a 80mm lens. Frank On 26 Nov, 2004, at 21:56, Adam Bridge wrote: > I think it's easier for Epson or any of the Japanese camera makers who > have already done digital in-house, to have done this than it is for > Leica who feels they are responsible for the optics. > > I can hear the whining from this group if Leica had made a digital > that DIDN'T work with all the Leica M mount lenses. There'd have been > NO END to the complaining. > > Yes, it's definitely too bad that Leica didn't invest immediately into > the technology to ride the leadership curve. But since when has Leica > done this? As long as they can count on the collector's market to buy > lenses and cameras with no regard to how good they really are...well, > there's no incentive to jump on the very expensive bandwagon. > > So now Leica, and users of their lenses, are paying the price. I'm > doing okay with a hybrid work-flow although I think there's a Nikon > 5000 in my future. The investment I have in adaptors for that scanner > will transfer to the new one. I don't have USB2 built into my machine > so I'll have to buy a card for my PowerMac but those are pretty cheap. > I'll be interested in scanning the same black and white images on both > scanners and seeing if there's really a problem with grain aliasing. > Somehow I seem to have missed that to date. > > Adam > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >