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Is this picture blurry or am I imagining things? (Shot on film)

Started Oct 8, 2019 | Discussions thread
sybersitizen Forum Pro • Posts: 24,269
Re: Agree, digitization was bad
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pcunnin wrote:

I agree, I don’t know what happened with digitization. Maybe it was overexposed?

Scanned to TIFF, 3200 DPI 9n Epson v550. usually images turn out better but this set didn’t turn out great. Other images from a point & shoot shot on Ultramax turned out much better developed at the same time

I can confidently state that your flatbed scanner is incapable of delivering the full resolution captured by a decent lens on 35mm film. I don't know of any consumer level flatbed that can do it. The resolution numbers you see in scanner specs mean nothing. They refer to the theoretical ability of the hardware but don't relate to what happens in practice when scanning through a sheet of glass, as they must do.

I've owned lots of flatbeds myself and have a V500 now. It's great with prints, but it's quite disappointing with slides compared to my dedicated film scanner, or even compared to digitizing using my A77 and macro lens.

100% crops of the same slide digitized with A77 RAW, A77 JPEG, Epson V500, and PrimeFilm 7200 scanner:

The camera versions were captured at 24MP; the PrimeFilm version was captured at 3600 PPI (roughly its maximum practical resolution). They were then resampled to match the Epson version scanned at 3200 PPI (far beyond its maximum practical resolution).

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