Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/07/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Whoa, the 73rd Worldcon "Sasquan" http://sasquan.org generously providing me with a space to do my photo projects, and I have some space to hang really large prints. I can't afford and it wouldn't make sense to do "photo-quality" prints but I figure a couple 48"x60" poster-quality prints might look awesome. My V700 scanned images look pretty good printed at 24"x30" (my printer's limit). Someone even printed a few for an artshow on a commercial HP printer at 30x40" and they look pretty good. Since I want to make these 2 prints as large as I can afford, I sent them negs out for drumming scan. This is done by a professional photographer on a "real" drum scanner and not the virtual drum scan. They cost $135 each for a 4000 DPI scan. Anyway, I am somewhat surprised that when printed 24"x30", there is very little difference between the V700 scanned file vs. the drum scanned file. More tonal range and more details / sharper here and there, but for a print, the difference is no more than 5%. The difference is probably more apparent the large I print. Meanwhile, I am really impressed on how the V700 turns out! These are a couple comparison screen grab at 1:2 http://richardmanphoto.com/PICS/20150729-Scanned-1151.jpg http://richardmanphoto.com/PICS/20150729-Scanned-1152.jpg -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> // http://facebook.com/richardmanphoto // https://instagram.com/richardmanphoto