The film image is second generation. It's a drum scan of the film -- probably the most accurate way of representing what's on the film. Certainly more detailed than an optical print. The first generation of negative film is useless. On Oct 18, 2006, at 9:23 PM, graywolf wrote:
> Welcome to the world of digital. Where they only way to compare images > is to digitalize the film image making it a 3rd generation image > compared to a first (web), or second (print) from the digital. And of > course the biggest common (well not so common, but not custom built) > film camera is 20x24. When will digital match 20x24 inch > transparencies? > > <GRIN!> > > --graywolf > > > Kevin Waterson wrote: >> Whilst not strictly Pentax related, I found this older article >> comparing some 4x5 >> >> http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/Cramer.shtml >> >> I found it interesting any how... >> >> Kevin >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
