Let´s talk about something.
Everybody is always talking about quantity of
pixels (CCD vs film). You have to bear in mind what you
want to do with your pictures. If you plan to print
one A4 with your E-10 raw data and one image from
Nikon Coolscan also at the same size, you won´t notice
the resolution due to human eye limit. Now if you plan
to do super big enlargements or even zoom a small zone
from your slide, this is a good reason to buy a slide
scanner. But another story is colour accuracy. If you
scan slides with your slide scanner you should know
that colour accuracy is difficult to achive if you
don´t have a good colour software like BINUSCAN
Photoperfect, who has CCDs profiles in order to generate
from raw images, perfect TIFFs with true colour.
Now if you scan at maximum resolution of your scanner,
and you don´t need to print extra pixels and don´t lose
time, what do you do? RESAMPLE IMAGE!!! Hey this is the
worst thing you can do with your digital archive!!!
I think I´ve made many, many trials with slide scanning,
ICCs, colour gammuts, CIELab <--> RGB transformation, etc...
and slide scanning is never easy at all!!! Now download
your E-10 image through USB port, perfect colour matching
with QImage pro, no dust and artifacts, no need of spending
hours of colour correction, etc... It seems you prefer your
scanner only for your high quantity of pixels. Wait only
1 year, and sure you´ll change your ideas. ;-)
Best regards,
Dave
"C.H.Ling" wrote:
>
> I have seen this site before, this test only shown the poor
> performance of Canon 100-400, the resolution of this lens is too low
> and contrast is too bad, it just "match" the CCD resolution and it
> also need some digital help to improve its sharpness and contrast. The
> author mentioned RAW data from the DC, actually any RAW data need
> manufacturer's custom software for processing, RAW does really mean
> "raw". The D30 is not magic, the resolution should be similar to D1,
> S1 and E-10. Check the image-resources test result you will know. If
> it is that good, no one will use film anymore. Also the "detail"
> images doesn't look like actual pixel size on screen.
>
> Believe me, the unsharpened single CCD Digital Camera file look
> extremely soft including the S1 I have used. At the mean time, a good
> film scanner (even my LS2000 or LS10 at 2700dpi) with any ISO100 film
> need no sharpen to produce very good result (actually much better than
> any DC files I have ever seen).
>
> Would you believe 3.25M pixels (D30's res) can show all the data on
> your 35mm film? I won't!
>
> C.H.Ling
>
> WKato@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > Here's a URL to a comparison of the new Canon digital to the same camera
> > brand and lens using Provia F. The silver halide picture was scanned using a
> > Imacon scanner. The surprising result is that the digital Canon photo was
> > basically tied or slightly better than the Provia F (noted as a very fine
> > grained film). But as CH Ling said you will miss the 16 through 24 range
> > because of the 1.6x mulitplicaiton factor from the small CCD or CMOS.
> > <A HREF="http://www.luminous-landscape.com/d30_vs_film.htm";>D30 Vs Film</A>
> > Also there doesn't seem to be any "bucket problem" as noted before on this
> > list. Maybe this is because of the telephoto lens used, which if the rear
> > element is far from the film plane (or CMOS plane) should not have as much
> > of
> > an effect.
> >
> > Warren
> >
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