Digital BW, The Print

Jerry writes:

> All I said is the prints would be equal
> in quality.

They might.  They'd be even more equal in 4x6 snapshots.

> The museum in question had compared velvia to
> the sinar scanning back and the sinar won hands
> down.

Velvia is an extraordinarily poor choice for archival pictures of paintings.
One of the key ideas of archiving pictures of such art objects, I should
think, would be to preserve their colors, and Velvia exaggerates colors so
dramatically that this wouldn't be possible.

Scanning backs are nice if your subject is completely motionless.  But then
again, so is LF film.

> Yeeaaahs! aren't those FILES compressed?

Yes, but the number of pixels they contain does not change.