Re: Digicam vs. Scanner resolutions

[byard pidgeon <bluedove@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for putting some numbers to film resolution...and the limitations of
desktop scanners.

Re: film/digital...looks like, much as I'd like to go all digital, I'm going
to be using my old Nikon SLRs for a few years, at least.
If I want point and shoot resolution, I have an old Nikon P&S that can do
it, and I paid a dollar for it at a Goodwill about 10 years ago.

The high end backs have the pixels, but after using everything from Minox to
5x7 view and hand cameras, I know I like using 35mm best...and do better
work with it, too.

Re: higher end scanning...I've seen the difference...pack more pixels into
the scan, and get a better print; even on a high end large format printer,
the difference is easy to see.

Maybe that's the way to go...put the money into a better scanner, because I
think it will be several years until we get really high end 35mm digicams.

on 06/06/2002 11:48 AM, David Chien at chiendh@uci.edu wrote:

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> 
> Anyways, it the meantime, try betterlight.com or phaseone.com
> 
> eg. while this is only a 10,500x12,600 digital imager, it should get you
> going in the right direction (the other one above I talked about goes
> higher -- vaguely remembering it going to 15,000)
> 
> http://www.phaseone.com/en/PRODUCTS/scan/PowerPhaseFX.htm
> 
> For certain, you'll =easily= match and exceed 35mm film quality with
> this 132MP imager ;)
> 
> -------------------
> 
> Anyways, as quoted from Photonics magazine article with a Kodak film
> scientist, he currently says that estimates of how many MP film's upper
> limit is is approximately 25MP (was 24.xx, but I've forgotten).  And
> that's for the regular stuff not counting TechPan.
> 
> Realistically, ~8MP will start to match a quality P&S camera like an
> Olympus Styus Epic, with both achieving ~50lp/mm of resolution in the
> images created.
> 
> Naturally, since most 35mm SLR camera lenses of good quality go much
> higher, to 100+lp/mm, you will need to increase the MP of the digital
> caemra you use up to Kodak's figure of ~25MP to match the film and lens
> combo you typically use, and accordingly, the resolution and quality
> you've been getting from that film setup.
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