another try film vs digital (B&W this time) - Printable Version +- Opticallimits (https://forum.opticallimits.com) +-- Forum: Forums (https://forum.opticallimits.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=4) +--- Forum: Just Talk (https://forum.opticallimits.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=17) +--- Thread: another try film vs digital (B&W this time) (/showthread.php?tid=324)

another try film vs digital (B&W this time) - toni-a - 04-30-2017 ilford HP5  SLR scanned with 750D plus 100mm macro (dunno if it was perfectly done) versus 5D converted via DXO, adjusted to taste another try film vs digital (B&W this time) - JJ_SO - 05-12-2017 HP5 plus for 135 format is a bit grainy. I suggest T-Max400 or Ilford X-P2.  it's very clear you didn't adjust the "scan" and went with your "adjusted to taste" of the DSLR version a very contrasty way with poor shadows. if film is your thing, get a medium format camera with a decent lens if you want to get close to what DSLRs can do these days it's just a terminological thing: You don't call macroshots scans. For scans you take scanners, hence the name. These scanners lack of a hardware moiré-filter and get out the maximum of information, while your canon has a filter in front of the RGB sensor. You can run a scan for grayscale only, so you have no loss due to interpolation of RGB pixels. The lighting behind the negative also is critical - you cannot have both, usually: good ad balanced contrast or maximum reolution and sharpness. See for "condensor" and "diffusor" light heads of enlargers. Diffusors are less critical for small dust particles because they caus a certain softness. Condensors bringt out the last detail - of hairs, grain, scratches and dust. And the smaller the film format, the more perfect your scanning/macrophoto process has to be.