Digital BW, The Print

with my 2450 which is slightly worse than the current Epson scanners 
I easily get good 8x10s from medium format.  While you don't get 
the "true" increase in quality going to medium format vs. 35mm in 
this way you do get near grainless prints that look very good.  Also, 
the lack in ultimate scanner sharpness acts like an analog grain 
filter, so even with Tri-X you get good smooth images.

mark

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Stephen Kobrin" 
<kobrins@w...> wrote:
> 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