Digital BW, The Print

The article on the museum mentioned that each file was close to 600
megabytes, I believe. In any case they showed comparison full page
pictures with the 4x5 scanning back and velvia, and even a blind person
could tell the digital was far superior to velvia in every respect.

Jerry

Austin Franklin wrote:
> 
> > 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
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