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M/F film scanners - again?
2 Questions here, I tried the scanner groups and got no answer - since
it's primarily M?F I'm looking at I wonder if you guys have any answers? I have taken on board the understanding that the A/D specification is an indicator of the *potential* Dmax of a scanner given the CCD is good enough to supply sufficient data to the ADC. No makers ever seem to give an actual measured Dmax, they just give 12/14/16bit x 3 as an indicator of potential dynamic range. Apart from trying several scanners for myself and also taking price as a sort of indicator of CCD quality, how do I know which scanners are going to make the best of my slides? An obvious problem is going to be my habit of trying to take pics when the brightness range is way too great to get good highlight and shadow detail on the film, let alone on on a scan.I'm trying to kick this habit but in the meantime I have some very difficult but potentially rewarding slides to scan. I see some good close out deals on the Minolta scan multi II. How much difference would I see in A3 prints for the 12 bit A/D compared with the 16 bit A/D of the Scan multi pro or the 14 bit of the Microtek Artixscan 120TF? Resolution isn't an issue as I'm scanning medium format for A3 prints. Looking for scans at least comparable with those I'm getting from 35mm on the Nikon Super Coolscan 4000ED. Thanks Rod Weed my email address to reply http://website.lineone.net/~rodcraddock/index.html |
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