best digital camera has 13 stops latitude. ektar 100 is 15 plus. Nikon cool scans don't compare CCD scanner don't compare with PMT scanners. (well howtek sucks but they where trying to make cheap drum scanner)
On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 3:14 PM, David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2013-06-13 13:54, Randy Little wrote:My scans have been Nikon ls-2000, Coolscan 5000, some old photo CDs, and
> David I don't think a d700 can touch ektar 100 or t-max or plus x off of a
> PMT scanner.Not even in the ball park. Better then off an epson anything
> sure.
a very few drum scans. Certainly not flatbed scans! And to some extent
I've been comparing direct darkroom prints from film, not later digital
prints, which does give the digital captures a considerable advantage
(digital printing being so far beyond darkroom printing).
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