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Re:I Almost Bought a Scanner by whitemary on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @07:06PM (#34526050)
What do you mean by “get”? I have an Epson V700. I have done plenty of side by side comparisons. The sharpness of the grain in the scan is what matters, not merely “getting” the grain. To speak of the resolution of a film exposure is incoherent. Grain != pixels. The V700 is also inconsistent because of the floppy plastic mounts and because they lack a mechanism to really keep the film flat.
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Re:I Almost Bought a Scanner by jojobas on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @07:53PM (#34526399)
If you can see individual grains you are already limited by the film itself, anything beyond that is noise. Sharper grain is just a higher spatial frequency noise.
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Re:I Almost Bought a Scanner by chrstphrknwtn on Thursday January 26, 2023 @01:54PM (#34536779)
It sounds like you haven't done a lot of film scanning besides perhaps an Epson.
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