[filmscanners] Re: Filmscanners - is this about as good as itgets?

["Bob Frost" <bob@frost.name>]

Sam,

Having just bought a D100, I'm not at all suprised at this response. I'm
amazed at the accuracy of the color that I am getting, compared to Provia
100F taken with a F100 and scanned with a LS4000 (either using NikonScan or
Vuescan). Having been a sceptic about digicams, I'm now a convert and am
happily printing 12x18 prints from the D100 with far less effort than from
the film. I don't take many landscapes, so the loss of pixels doesn't bother
me too much. I just upsize in PS to give 240ppi. This seems a reasonable
compromise between softening due to upsizing and possible jaggies due to too
low ppi.

Bob Frost.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Sam A. McCandless" <samcc@vom.com>


I was surprised, Ramesh, to see in a recent issue of "Popular
Photography", in an editor's response to a letter to the editor:

"... However, many digital cameras now offer color accuracy that is
better than any film we've tested. ..."

This surprised me, but only because I didn't remember it being said
in the many digital-vs-film discussions I've seen. That is, it didn't
surprise me because I doubt it. It's just that the digital-vs-film
war seems to be conducted so much on the resolution/sharpness/detail
front.


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