As someone commented over on r.p.e.l-f, neither the photographer nor the reporter seemed very knowledgable about photography, or cameras.
There has also been a thread running there where it seems it is not posible scan in a 4x5 image greater than 3200dpi into Photoshop. Though the guy has managed to stitch two partial scans together. We are talking images greater than 2GB here, just to compare to your DSLR.
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John Francis wrote:
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20040525/D82PL2I80.html
9x18 negs that are scanned, PS-manipulated as needed, and then printed to 5'x10' (about 1.52m x 3.05m). Seems to be the best of LF & digital technologies.
Some really good ideas, and some really questionable ones.
Using a vacuum back to keep the film flat, and an optical alignment system, are definitely a good idea (although I'm pretty sure I've heard of the vacuum back technique before). Mind you, I have to wonder if the lens being used has an image plane that is flat to anywhere near that precision.
Ending up being forced to use an emulsion with inaccurate colour renditions (presumably a limitation of what films are available for the body he started with) is a bad thing.
-- graywolf http://graywolfphoto.com/graywolf.html
