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[OM] Re: My personal Film vs. Digital tests - I

Subject: [OM] Re: My personal Film vs. Digital tests - I
From: John Hudson <OM4T@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 08:52:47 -0300

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From: "ScottGee1" <scottgee1@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, 09 May, 2005 07:48 AM
Subject: [OM] Re: My personal Film vs. Digital tests - I


>
> Yikes!  A couple questions come immediately to mind:
>
>  - How was the film processed?
>  - Which scanner did you use and at what resolution?

A third question comes to my mind:

Are Kiron lenses, and in particular the 28-210, comparable in optical
performance quality to Tamron 28-300 lenses?

jh





>
> Also, did you have a 'traditional' print made from the film?  If so,
> was it as grainy?  I set off 'traditional' in that sentence because
> most labs no longer print from negatives, but rather scan them and
> print from that file.
>
> I recently had my lab scan entire rolls AND make traditional prints.
> The scanned images are quite grainy, the prints, however, are not.
>
> Thanks for sharing your results!/ScottGee1
>
> On 5/9/05, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On my recent trip, I took a few images with both OM-4 and 300D with the
> > same subjects <http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/FvD01.htm>.
> >
> > This one is a pretty fair test, in that the same iso was used for both
> > and the zooms were at pretty similar effective focal lengths. The film
> > shot looked pretty grainy, but had been cropped some, so I lightened the
> > grain some in NeatImage, but leaned toward image detail over absolute
> > grain reduction. I suppose I need to do some testing at different
> > scanner dpis, to see how that affects grain, but that sounds a lot like
> > work....
> >
> > The film scan was much bigger than the 300D image. Both were downsampled
> > to the same jpeg size with WPPro.
> >
> > Fuel on the fire?? :-)
> >
> > Moose
> >
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