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

Started Oct 8, 2019 | Discussions thread
OP pcunnin Regular Member • Posts: 378
Re: Agree, digitization was bad

My god, the Epson looks terrible. I’m tempted to return mine although I haven’t noticed any problems until now, your samples show the v500 to look absolutely horrible and blurry. I’d say the best are the macro lens even better than the primefilm?

How is the primefilm in general, vs using a macro lens, in terms of speed, practical results, and quality, according to your judgement?

sybersitizen wrote:

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:

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