Hi Ken,
I agree on all counts, Velvia 50 is sharper, but I use Provia more.
Still,
both Provia and Velvia have more (apparent, in anyway, based on my
scanning tests)
resolution and less grain the Ilford FP4, my ~ISO100 black and white
film of choice.
I do also find that scanned B&W have shockingly / disturbingly much
more grain than wet-printed
B&W, which is why I am taking to scanning my wet prints (where
available). This has its own problems,
but the grain is much less apparent.
In all of this, I prefer a 100% analog B&W workflow. Hybrid really
does not make sense, just get a good
DSLR which will have a bit less of the resolution, and 0% of the
grain, of film.
For colour, the only reason I use a hybrid workflow is because I have
no taken to wet-printing colour
(yet?), colour film (all of them) have a much wider gamut of colours
than any DSLR I've seen, and
medium format resolution is amazing.
On 05 Aug 2009, at 4:07 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
> Provia 100F is smooth, but not the sharpest tack in the drawer.
> Velvia 50,
> Velvia 100, Astia 100F and 160S will all out-resolve Provia 100F.
> PanF
> absolutely blows them all away in the resolution department AND in
> tonal
> seperation.
>
> Scanned B&W is always going to be grainier than wet-printed B&W.
> There is a
> very disturbing interaction between the film grain and the linear
> sensor
> which causes aliasing artifacts accentuating the grain.
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