Marcus Aurelius wrote:The CanoScans are okay for net size viewing, but if you want prints bigger than 15x23 cm, you're going to need something better.
About APX: yeah, but they won't be using the Agfaphoto name, so if it says Agfa or AgfaPhoto, it's still from the old stocks of film coated before 2007.
Is there a reason why the CanoScans have lower effective resolution than the claimed 9600dpi for the 9000F?
I'm trying out Tri-X 400 and pushing it to 1600 to see what I get.
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Kreia
Fingolfin_Noldor wrote:Is there a reason why the CanoScans have lower effective resolution than the claimed 9600dpi for the 9000F?
Interpolation and possibly lens limits. The V700 has a "true" resolution considerably lower than its specified 6400 dpi.
The linear CCD of the 9000F really does have a resolution of 9600 ppi (no fucking dots there, dpi is a printing term and I don't care how commonly it is misused in the industry) and the same goes for the 6400 ppi of V700. The pixels are not interpolated but come straight from the CCD. (Actually there are of course three times the number of imaging sites, because it is an RGB color device and linear CCDs don't have anything like the Bayer interpolation of camera sensors.)
It's all about the lenses and the fact that flatbed scanners are fixed focus devices. There are slight variations between individual scanners and also between individual lenses. Unless the focus is is always perfect the real resolution drops dramatically. The variations between scanners can be compensated somewhat by adjusting the height of the film holders, but it can't compensate for the lens variations. Also the lenses themselves are not really good enough to get that kind of resolutions for the price of these flatbeds. The Hasselblad Flextight X1 that actually has 6300 ppi resolution costs more than 10 times the price of the V700 and not all of that price difference is due to economies of scale.
These are some shots from my first batch of self-developed B&W film (though the film itself was a bit of bad luck. One was damaged because I opened my camera without rewinding, and another somehow the film didn't catch and didn't cycle properly.) All Afga APX400, and on CV35mm/f1.2.
Metalic Tree Branches
Together
Street Shop
STGOD: Byzantine Empire Your spirit, diseased as it is, refuses to allow you to give up, no matter what threats you face... and whatever wreckage you leave behind you.
Kreia
Tri-X 400 pushed to 1600. I scanned in color, then desaturated the photos, then applied auto-constrast in photoshop.
STGOD: Byzantine Empire Your spirit, diseased as it is, refuses to allow you to give up, no matter what threats you face... and whatever wreckage you leave behind you.
Kreia
Organismic biology lab: Echinoderms (Sea Urchins to be exact) -
Taken through a Binocular: IMG_0016 by Dan Ofer, on Flickr IMG_0010 by Dan Ofer, on Flickr
Lighting set up. (Yes, I know about the nose. It was intentional )
Photography Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
I've lacked time over the past few months, but i'm hoping to get "back in the game" so to speak.
I'm also starting a 365/3 Project.
A few random snaps from the past week and a bit: IMG_0012-1 by Dan Ofer, on Flickr
Petals.
IMG_8913 by Dan Ofer, on Flickr
Generic, but I liked it, and the light was nice. (Best pic of the evening. The rest from inside a party sucked).
IMG_0048 by Dan Ofer, on Flickr
I didn't get the effect I was going for despite a few attempts. I might have had better luck with an external flash and better metering.
Photography Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Took this picture right at sunset as the truck was pulling around to line up and dump. You can still see a bit of the sunlight on the box and a bit on the passenger side muffler up top. The original was incredibly noisy, since I took it in low-light with my iPhone. I cropped it a bit and shrank it to post. I can post the original if anyone wants to see if that was better
This one's from last fall, it's about 5 minutes from where I live.
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Listen to my music! http://www.soundclick.com/nihilanth "America is, now, the most powerful and economically prosperous nation in the country." - Master of Ossus
"The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles."
Lokwar wrote:wow where do you live that looks beautiful
We're in Toronto, most of our river valleys look like that in the fall.
And now for some real black & white film, shot with a camera that's older than I am.
And little red riding hood
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I'm not sure why people choose 'To Love is to Bury' as their wedding song...It's about a murder-suicide
- Margo Timmins
When it becomes serious, you have to lie
- Jean-Claude Juncker
STGOD: Byzantine Empire Your spirit, diseased as it is, refuses to allow you to give up, no matter what threats you face... and whatever wreckage you leave behind you.
Kreia
STGOD: Byzantine Empire Your spirit, diseased as it is, refuses to allow you to give up, no matter what threats you face... and whatever wreckage you leave behind you.
Kreia
"DO YOU WORSHIP HOMOSEXUALS?" - Curtis Saxton (source) shroom is a lovely boy and i wont hear a bad word against him - LUSY-CHAN! Shit! Man, I didn't think of that! It took Shroom to properly interpret the screams of dying people - PeZook Shroom, I read out the stuff you write about us. You are an endless supply of morale down here. :p - an OWS street medic Pink Sugar Heart Attack!
I went totally old school and broke out the black & white film with a manual everything camera.
Mountain bike adventures documented with an Olympus OM-1 and Ilford HP5+ film.
aerius: I'll vote for you if you sleep with me. Lusankya: Deal!
Say, do you want it to be a threesome with your wife? Or a foursome with your wife and sister-in-law? I'm up for either.
Shitty pictures, it was actually getting quite dark outside even though the pictures don't show it. But goddamn I am finally done! I've worked on this car all summer, replaced fuel injectors, EGR valve, repaired and put back in the factory cassette radio, repaired and repainted the spoiler and reprogrammed the ECM (with factory settings, had to replace the broken chip):
Aand now to put it up for sale
Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who did not.
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"DO YOU WORSHIP HOMOSEXUALS?" - Curtis Saxton (source)
