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Re: [OM] E10 in hand

Subject: Re: [OM] E10 in hand
From: "C.H.Ling" <chling@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 18:10:30 +0800
Hi David,

1. For resolution, I agree with you E-10 will be okay if you view you
final A4 at three to four feet distance. But I can immediately
identify a E-10 print with a true Zuiko shot at 4x6 inch size at 1
foot distance. That doesn't mean it is not acceptable, but you can see
the different, a Zuiko shot look much finer in details. Inkjet is not
an option to me for small prints, I need at least 300dpi dye sub or my
8000 line film recorder output.

2. Color accuracy, you are too exaggerated on the Binuscan, I also
bought a copy two years ago for my poor UMAX1220, I know you own a
UMAX Powerlook II which is much better. But to my understanding the
Binuscan is for pre press printing. You can say it give very good
looking color and contrast for print. But you cannot say it is
accurate, it even make wrong contrast in scanning of photos, it does
it's own adjustment without faithfully reproduce the original look of
the print. 

My Nikon LS2000 gives me very good color accuracy, no complicated
adjustment is needed to scan for slide output. I don't think Binuscan
will work well in this area. 

One point I agree with you is the color accuracy of Olympus DC, it was
highly praised on many of the articles I have seen. But I would not
say perfect, how do you know E-10 has perfect accurate color?

As you have mentioned, I like scanner quality since it can provide
high quality pixels, same as Zuiko. Otherwise I can buy any off brand
lens to use at a much cheaper price, why spend money on Zuiko? One
thing digital fans always confused, why I need to scan if I can enjoy
the slides directly captured with my lenses? 

C.H.Ling 


David Irisarri wrote:
> 
> 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
>

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