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morfe Mar 3, 2006 19:25:15
Replying to CianMcLiam

"I would bet my Nikon it would not be possible to tell a Large format scan and a pic from a Canon 1Ds in a jpg at that resolution as far as detail and tone goes."


Here's an old comparison

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/shootout.shtml

While I disagree with Pete that you can't get the quality with digital, it seems prohibitively costly and arduous for all but the most moneyed photographers to shoot in the field with medium format digital. I was at the Focus show at the NEC this week, the 22mp digital backs are stunning slapped on a Hasselblad, nice at 16000 quid...

At work we have a drum scanner and scan 6 x 6's all the time so trust me I know my stuff. Now the Phase One stuff, in contrast, has no grain or dust...

But I like grain and dust!

C CianMcLiam
CianMcLiam Mar 3, 2006 20:00:49
Replying to morfe

The price has come down then! Last time I saw a review of a medium digital back it was over the 22,000 sterling mark. Two pages further on they had an ad for the same back slung around the back of a jeans-wearing cowboy in the wilds of the west! The chances of one of those backs stepping foot outside a studio is probably nil.

Regarding the shootout, there's a big difference in looking full size crops from a file and looking at the entire image compressed into a few hundred pixels in jpg format (as the medium format prints are) which is what I was commenting on. When you reduce an image to those dimensions and compress it with a jpg engine then you've virtually wiped out the advantage of medium format v's digital or 35mm. It seems in detail and sharpness digital won that bout.

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