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First steps back to film photography after a long hiatus: handling of the Minolta X570

Started Apr 2, 2018 | Discussions thread
ThomasB
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Re: Roll #1 Kodak Portra 400 - Minolta X570

moimoi wrote:

ThomasB wrote:

moimoi wrote:

Hi,

Here is a link in which I added a few scans from Roll #1 (Portra 400).

http://www.maximesiegler.com/roll-1-x570/

Cheers,

Max

Excellent results. I'm particularly surprised about the Portra 400. Maybe I'll try it as well. Generally I prefer to use Fujifilm as the first choice.

Yes, it is an excellent film if you shoot portrait.

Do you like your new scanner? At which resolution did you scan?

Yes, I do like it. For my first roll, the frames were scanned at 3600ppi. The scanner can go at 7200ppi but there seems no major gain of resolution with the latter (at least with Portra 400).

Maybe for the next roll, I will do more testing and do the 7200ppi > 3600ppi conversion.

I think 7200 dpi is a bit of a overkill for color film. I have still an old Minolta "Dimage Scan Elite 5400" and already 5400 dpi is too much as that results already in a 40 MP picture out of a 24x36 mm negative. Even the best color film gets grainy already in that resolution and the scan times are much longer as well. Therefore it's IMHO waste of time and effort to scan at resolutions higher than 4000 dpi.

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Regards, Thomas Bernardy
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