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Re: [OM] 35mm film lost the battle against digital ?

Subject: Re: [OM] 35mm film lost the battle against digital ?
From: "Tom Trottier" <Tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 02:00:02 -0400
Does it give 16-bit-per-colour 4000 dpi scans, suitable for editing?

tOM

On Monday, October 07, 2002 at 21:45, Tal Lancaster 
<olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote re "Re: [OM] 35mm film lost the battle against digita" saying:

> On Sun, 6 Oct 2002 19:51:54 -0700
> "Tim Chakravorty" <suchismit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > "...I'm afraid that film has definitively lost the battle. The (Canon)1Ds's 
> > full-frame 11MP CMOS 
> >  sensor produces a 32MB file - as big as a  typical scan. But this file is 
> > sharper and more noise 
> >  free than any scan I have ever seen, including drum scans. There simply 
> > isn't a contest any longer..."
> > 
> 
> My film scans tend to be more in the 60-130M range.
> 
> -- 
> Tal Lancaster (talrmr@xxxxxxxxxxx)
> The RenderMan Repository http://www.renderman.org/RMR/

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