Hasselblad: A Camera That Went to the Moon and Changed How We See It

Re:Hasselblad: A Camera That Went to the Moon and Changed Ho... by wl on Sunday July 14, 2019 @12:54PM (#20434418)

I recently made a 60"x48" print from a 4x5 negative scanned with a Epson V700 scanner. You're simply not going to get that kind of resolution with a DSLR. I don't doubt you get good results with your setup, but your statement that "the results are better than any flatbed scanner" is nonsense.

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Re:Hasselblad: A Camera That Went to the Moon and Changed Ho... by gsich on Sunday July 14, 2019 @02:17PM (#20434902)

For film negatives this scanner will get about 2300 dpi according to [0]. A DSLR with 24 megapixel will get the ~4000 dpi form a 35mm negative in a fraction of the time.

A 4x5" negative takes 33 minutes to scan with 2400 dpi. In this time I can make several photos and stitch them together do some spot removal and will get a better quality.

[0] https://www.filmscanner.info/EpsonPerfectionV700Photo.html

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Re:Hasselblad: A Camera That Went to the Moon and Changed Ho... by bayesian_horse on Monday July 15, 2019 @04:25AM (#20439021)

The DSLR+adapter solution does sound more convincing to me, with the right lens, right sensor and settings. Correcting distortions should be a tractable.

One problem with many flatbed scanners (not all of them and not the film scanners) is that they illuminate the film/object from the same side as the sensor, so the light has to travel and bounce more, creating more chances of stray light.

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Re:Hasselblad: A Camera That Went to the Moon and Changed Ho... by i_am_proteus on Sunday July 14, 2019 @02:09PM (#20434851)

I will counter that my statement is non-nonsense: I stitch multiple "full frame" shots for formats larger than 35mm.

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