Digital BW, The Print

In a message dated 5/20/2003 1:05:23 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com writes:

> When quality is all that
> matters, film wins.
> 

Actually, large format scan backs win. That's why all the large format optics 
were redesigned with smaller image circles and 100 LPMM perfomance. Film only 
masked the chromatic aberrations of lenses. Digital showed how bad some of 
them were. Better sharpness, color fidelity, and no Bayer patterns, no grain.

With the exception of some black and white films like Tech Pan, of course 
(since this is a B&W forum). But your luminance range might be limited with that 
material.

Claude


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Claude writes:

> Actually, large format scan backs win.

Scanning backs cannot handle moving subjects.  And if you allow scanning
backs, you may as well allow Tech Pan through color filters, which will
pretty much leave scanning backs in the shade.

> With the exception of some black and white
> films like Tech Pan, of course (since this is
> a B&W forum). But your luminance range might
> be limited with that material.

For pictorial work in Technidol, Density range is about 2.8, exposure range
about 9 stops, resolution about 200 lp/mm.