Thanks, glad you like my (what I though was rather mundane) image :-)
I agree that your upscaled 5D MkII image is not that far off from my
Mamiya scan, and to answer
your last question/statement, B&W film (Ilford) is a heck of a lot
more grainy than digital, or
Provia or Ektar colour film. When I scan Provia to the same
dimensions, there is just absolutely no
(nada, zip) grain. I also find that colour slide film (ISO 100) has
vastly more resolution than ISO 100
black and white film - not sure why this is? One apparently has to use
Pan F to match the resolution and (not
even then) the smoothnes of Provia 100F.
I must say, I am thrilled that a scan on a cheap-ish flatbed from my
Mamiya negatives beat a very high-res
DSLR like the 5DII. However, when you look at a 16x20 wet print from
this same negative, or a high-end scan
on e.g. a Flextight, it will be some time yet until any one-shot
digital capture matches it.
However, while the resolution is nice, the sole reason I am messing
around with B&W is because of the
tonality, I have a carefully made digital capture of that exact same
scene (EF 50mm f/1.2L at optimum
diffraction-limited aperture, mirror lockup, ESO 1DMkIIN) and the look
is just totally different, and
I really love wet-printing.
Once it gets old, I am sure I will be thrilled with what contemporary
digital provides then.
P.S. Your image has again awakened the need within myself to get an OM
35/2.0 lens! The quality is highly
impressive, I can't believe anybody ever complains about that lens
being "soft", from what you post, I should be
getting spectacular 9x11in prints from it. Thanks for showing...
On 04 Aug 2009, at 4:00 AM, C.H.Ling wrote:
> Wow! You MF scan is really impressive and the photo itself is very
> nice. I
> tried to scale up a 5D II image to 7000x4667 it seems not as detail
> but I
> would say it is not that far away.
>
> Shot with OM 35/2 at F5.6 handheld:
>
> http://www.accura.com.hk/temp/IMG_5761.JPG (4.8MB)
>
> BTW, if it was not with B/W film will the details be so fine :-)
>
> C.H.Ling
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