The res is definitely better at the 6400 dpi resolution. But the file sizes are getting big.
My question is, are you pulling out the grain, as well? One of the things I've noticed when scanning black and white is that going full tilt boogie for resolution ends up giving me detail but with grain. This is with the Coolscan 9000 ED. So, I generally won't go more than 2000 ppi when scanning tri-x or plus-x negs (the guy who runs the local lab in town doesn't scan b/w at more than 1000 ppi, or so he tells me, and he has the same setup as me). I haven't had the oppurtunity to scan other kinds of b/w neg yet. However, I will be trying some Fuji neopan 120 sometime in the near future. Just curious. -Brendan --- Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The other day I posted a Pentax 645 photo made with > the 35mm lens, > scanned with a new Epson V700 scanner: > > http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/PAW7/19b.htm > > One person mentioned that running it at 8x sampling > would help > improve resolution, another person mentioned that > setting the > negative holder to alternative heights showed a big > improvement. I > decided to do a set of experimental scans with this > negative and > Vuescan trying these two things, in combination, and > trying my > original 3200ppi setting against the 6400 ppi > setting: > > > http://homepage.mac.com/godders/V700rez-detail-snips.jpg > > Conclusion: > It does seem that there is a small gain in > resolution with the feet > removed, and again doing the 8x sampling on the 3200 > ppi scans, or am > I kidding myself? > > There is certainly a gain in resolution going to the > 6400 ppi scans > albeit at a big price in disk space ... the 16bit > grayscale TIFF file > grows from 73.3 Mbytes to 293.3 Mbytes. > > Comments? > > I'm going to try a 35mm negative in the V700 vs the > Nikon LS40 and > Minolta Scan Dual II next ... > > Godfrey > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
