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Re: Shooting digital vs. film

2002-09-06 by charles_bandes

> Obviously, but anyone complaining about grain in scans from a Hasselblad
> must be using grainy film, because it disappears with fine-grained
films.

I shoot color mostly.

I see lots and lots of grain in 4000dpi scans of both Portra 400 and
160. I'm definitely willing to believe that there are films out there
with less grain - but for the film I use it seems that 2700 dpi scans
are preferable, since the grain doesn't present itself nearly as badly
at lower resolutions.

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