This will never happen with enlargements from negs & E6.
It can't.
(E6 negs have grain like C-41 & b&w, though Kodachrome has very a different
structure.)
Here's why:
The light passing through negative "holes" suffers an aperture affect.
As a result it creates rings on the print.
The different emulsion formulations affect this differently, but it's always
there.
This is why enlargements from good digital always look sharper than enlargements
from 135 negs, and often as good as or better than those from 6cm negs.
Minimal enlargements are comparable. A 4x6 print looks verys similar between
the two.
But a 20x30 has a nicer appearance wrt grain.
A 135 b&w neg handled well @ 11x14, compared to a 6mp digital print, even with
grain, can still show more information. The information does provide a
depth/sense. Sort of a
trade-off here.
But a 135 b&w neg handled poorly can easily look worse than those 6mp print
results.
Contact printing is the only way to eliminate grain.
An 8x10 LF contact print has no 6mp-8mp comparison. But I've not yet had the
opportunity to look @ the results from a scanning back or medium format digital
to
compare them. That would be interesting.
Sincerely,
C. Brendemuehl
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