It all depends on your scanner. And, of course, your dreaded "workflow". Colour printing, in the analog realm, involves a lot of setup and balancing and pre-work -- building "channels" or normal corrections for specific kinds of film processed in your specific processing setup. People don't do this at home, generally.
My results from Fuji NPZ 800 were superior to almost everything else, when scanned, except for the low-speed Fuji transparencies. For ISO 400 and above it wasn't even a contest -- the scanned NPZ beat the crap out of everything else, transparency or negative. A recent show of mine had 8 24x36 prints. One was 35mm NPZ, two were 6x7 NPS, and three were 6x7 NPZ. The 35mm shot was obvious, though not overly grainy. It was just grainier than the others. But the NPS and NPZ 6x7 images were almost indistinguishable from each other. I used a Polaroid Sprintscan 120 and an Epson Stylus Pro 7500. If you're interested, I have the files here and can crop out centre chunks and stick 'em online. -Aaron -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
