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scanner doubts

2004-04-01 by Stephen Kobrin

I have been thinking about getting back into MF, especially given 
what Bronica ECs are going for on Ebay at this point.  What is 
stopping me is the price of a MF film scanner.  Given that recent 
posts indicate that true resolution on a flatbed is 2-3 times lower 
than a comparable flim scanner, I wonder how adequate they are in 
practice for scanning 120 film.  Do people get 8X10 prints, for 
example, that they consider satisfactory?  Put differently, would I 
see an improvement versus 35mm scanned on a film scanner if I used 
one of the better flatbeds and 120, all things equal.  If so, a 
flatbed, which is always useful, might be a reasonable stopgap until 
I can replace my LS 2000 with a true MF film scanner.

Steve

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