> Just my two cents, but I can scan my 35mm slides (at 2700dpi) and still get > away with some cropping without revealing the pixel structure, which I can't > do with my G-1 (3.3MP). I try to be very careful in my framing of my > initial shots with either format, but I have more latitude for errors with > film. I imagine the D60 would nearly double my flexibility over the G-1, > but then, a 4000dpi scanner would increase my flexibility by one third with > film.
> FWIW, even at 2700dpi, I can see the limitations of the scan where > there is more information in the film than the scanner could extract. It really is hard to compare apples (film grain) and apples (digital pixels). When I switched from a 2700dpi scanner (Polaroid 35plus) to a 4000dpi scanner (Polaroid 4000), I noticed something similar. Closer inspection revealed that the 4000dpi model was better at scanning details in the film grain than the older model. Photographs taken with the D30 don't have grain, but pixels. Digital pixels are uniform and very clearly separated. For film, the smallest unit of information is the film grain, which may overlap, and which have a more irregular shape. I think that in order to properly scan film, one needs to be able to scan the details in the film grain, so this requires a lot of resolution. But only a fraction of that will contain "real" information about the photographed object. This is due to the limitations of the film, and it becomes apparent when comparing 35mm with medium or large format prints of the same object. The "tonality" will appear better with increased film size (while keeping the print size the same). > As > scanners get better, I will always have my slides to take advantage of the > increases in resolution, but this is not so with and original digital image. This of course raises the question of how to archive photographs, and another one about the archival qualities of film. Velvia for example is not archival - colors fade relatively quickly. Whatever happened to good old Kodachome 64 ... Again, digital has its own set of problems here, most prominent I would say are compatibility problems of storage media. Lars -- Lars Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] 87GT http://www.larsmichael.com/ * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
