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espressogeek wrote:
Astia looks really neat when underexposed a smidge in twilight. E100VS, well, it looks killer most of the time under right light. My v700 scanner does an OK job but I plan to use it more like a glorified lightbox and send out for a good drum scan when I need one. I have never had the priviledge of looking at a Nikon 9000 scan at a very high scan resolution. Perhaps it would change my mind about the drum scan but I doubt it.
One thing to keep in mind about color transparency films and scanning is that the limit of scanners is usually in the dense shadows and in these areas the scanner noise can overpower the signal. Even drum scanners have this problem. Since I shoot for a hybrid film/digital workflow, I choose films and exposures that will be easier to scan and that will produce a good file, hopefully with detail throughout. If I need a little more saturation to meet my intended goal, I can add it in photoshop. So long as I don't blow the highlights, the film is usable. I like E100VS well enough, but I find that it needs about a half stop extra exposure over the rated film speed and that it does best when the subject brightness range is very limited when it is used for scanning.
That is why I usually shoot with Provia or E100G and occasionally Astia and even Portra. I hope that Ektar will be expanded to sheet film now that they've added 120 (available this spring) as I think it would be very useful to me based on what I've seen so far in 135 format. These films all open the SBR and scan very well.
Another reason why the Nikon scanners are well liked is that the analog gain (lamp brightness) can be adjusted to increase penetration in dense shadows to some degree. You could use analog gain to get HDR source files from film, or you could just paint the files together if you prefer. The Dmin moves with the Dmax on the scanner, so you'll give up highlight detail to get shadows in a single pass with analog gain.
And to soundhound, I think you'll really like the 43mm. One of my favorite 4X5 lenses is the 75mm which gives roughly the same field of view. I also have a 65mm which I find too wide at times and have skipped the traditional 90mm in favor of a 125mm. I find it hard to compare these more square formats with 35mm because it depends on whether the horizontal or vertical field of view is most important. Regardless I do like this field of view very much.
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