David I am a bit like you to an extent. I have some old medium format gear I rarely use. I have an old 4x5 rail that I don't use much. Most of the time I use either 35mm or my old 6mp dslr. Why? The flexibility and freedom of movement. Now I have a 30x40 on the wall made from a 6mp. Even at a close viewing distance it looks ok, but in the small detail if you put your nose right up to the frame it is beginning to break down just a bit. I haven't done as much with the newer films. The biggest problem I had with scanning is what I thought was grain was really noise. Noise Ninja went a long way to helping that and really haven't tested the limits of the old scan Elite 5400 with it. I also got so aggravated at the Dimage software with its quirks that it made it want to send it to the bottom of a lake. I am interested to see how vue scan works. --- On Wed, 12/10/08, David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b@xxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Something I wonder if anyone else is considering > To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Wednesday, December 10, 2008, 9:45 AM > On Tue, December 9, 2008 19:42, MichaelHughes7A@xxxxxxx > wrote: > > > > > Most print work - again from the ads I have been led > to believe that 6mp > > might be ok for 10x8 prints > > I have 30x34 prints from 6MP digital originals that, to my > eye, look > better than anything I was ever able to make from 35mm film > in that sort > of size. (Caveat: I gave up on making prints that big from > 35mm film a > long time ago, and the film then got somewhat better.) > This is not to say > that they look as good as one could get from 6x7 or 4x5, > though! But, > although I've owned at least 3 120 roll-film cameras, > and still own a 4x5, > I've been basically a 35mm photographer. > > -- > David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@xxxxxxxx; http://dd-b.net/ > Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ > Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ > Dragaera: http://dragaera.info
