Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "tigertwous" 
<jfisher@s...> wrote:
> I don't contest a word you have said, in fact I agree with you, 
however, when it comes 
> to film flatness this is where the Imacon system really shows 
where it excels over 
> other systems.

Well I agree that would certainly be an issue.   I often shoot 6x7 
and that's a huge issue with flatness of 6x7 MF in the camera -  
there's a whole world of folklore and opinion about how to get good 
film flatness, including not shooting film that's been in the camera 
for than X amount of time, controlling studio humidity, vacuum 
backs, stopping way down, etc.  

But I've seen enough scans that were right down to the grain so I 
didn't think this was a big issue with most scanners unless the film 
was badly buckled or something.

I'll be buying a new scanner soon because I'm getting a new PC and 
my existing scanners are all SCSI and I want to go to just USB2 or 
Firewire.   So what do people think -  is MF film flatness a big 
problem with most scanners these days?