Nice, Godfrey. I'm not going to comment on the scans themselves though, but on your remark of "during a trip to Munich in 1997 as seen above."
That's the view across Rue Rivoli, from the NE corner of the Hotel de Ville. Basically, across the street from where Doisneau shot his kiss picture. It doesn't get more Paris than that! j On 4/20/07, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallo, > > I took a 35mm film negative and scanned it a variety of ways with the > Epson V700, Nikon LS-40 and Minolta Scan Dual II. Here is a page with > links to 1:1 detail snippets and two sizings of the image, scanned at > two different resolutions with the V700 and at max rez with the > LS-40. (I didn't include the Scan Dual II as its output is for all > intents and purposes identical in this case to the Nikon LS-40.) > > http://homepage.mac.com/godders/V700_35test/ > > Overall, my conclusions: > > - You can make some very high quality scans even of 35mm negatives > with the V700. > > - It's not as convenient to use as the dedicated film scanners, and > the Nikon is significantly easier to use than the Minolta (as well as > faster). > > - The film scanners resolve more than the V700, even with lower > resolution. They pick up minute scratches and dust particle images > that are simply too small for the V700 to capture. However, with > suitable post processing, the results in print look nearly identical. > > The last tests I'm doing are for Minox 8x11 subminiature film format > scanning > Then I want to get back to doing photography. ;-) > > Godfrey > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- Juan Buhler - http://www.jbuhler.com photoblog: http://photoblog.jbuhler.com a book: http://www.jbuhler.com/book.html -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
