Yahoo Groups archive

Digital BW, The Print

Index last updated: 2026-04-28 22:56 UTC

Message

RE: [Digital BW] Digital sharpness vs film- Canon D60

2002-09-08 by Austin Franklin

> The museum in question had compared velvia to the sinar scanning back
> and the sinar won hands down. Just extolling the virtues of
> digital prints.

I have a 7k x 7k scanning back (that's 51,380,224 REAL pixels BTW, or over
150M bytes of data at 8 bits/color), and it gives amazing results...but
that's hardly even close to a 6M pixel Bayer pattern camera, and it's not
really good for anything outside the studio.

Austin

Attachments

Move to quarantaine

This moves the raw source file on disk only. The archive index is not changed automatically, so you still need to run a manual refresh afterward.