Anyone want to post a really great large format scan?

[Richard Mahoney]

Paul,

... Richard, what was the final print size?

I've just checked and I seem to have thrown out my original layout sketch for the image panels. I'm attaching an image to give you an idea. The panels were 1850mm x 1350mm. We scanned to about A0 -- as close as 4x5 with its different ratio gets -- and then just scaled accordingly. The landscapes were close to A0 and the portraits smaller. Printing was at 600dpi on ACM with a Durst Rho 600. The background was slightly grey to reduce glare.


Best, Richard

[Larry Gebhardt]

Paul, Here's a 3000dpi scan of a 5x7 negative, complete with Photoshop adjustment layers. Film was FP4+ rated at 64, developed in XTOL 1+1 on a Jobo. I forget which lens was used (probably a 180mm Nikon). Scanned on a ScanMate 5000.

This was created in Photoshop CS6, and there is a crop applied. But you can see the full image just by going into the crop tool and adjusting the borders out. The crop is 12x20 aspect ratio and is how I print the image. No sharpening has been applied to the file, which I would normally do before outputting the final destination.

This link should be good for 48 hours. Right click, and save to your disk. Don't download too many copies since it's almost 1GB and it's hosted on Amazon S3, so each download costs about $.10.

[paulr]

Thank you so much, Larry.
One copy only

[John Rodriguez]

Paul, if you still need more examples I can put up two files from the same slide, one scanned on an Epson 4870 at 2400 spi and one on a Premier at 2666 spi for comparison. Let me know and I'll put em in a Dropbox account.

[ataim]

Here is a scan low res, and a section that I scanned at 2000dpi on my epson 750. I know it not a drum, but its what I've got.

[Heroique]

Anyone want to post a really great large format scan?

Just a fun comparison, a “really affordable” LF scan – Seattle from Olympic Mountains.

Close to full-frame scan – dry mounted on station – 1500 dpi – produces 24 MB file. (My scanner’s effective resolution is higher, near 2000 dpi.)

The third image is a 1:1 crop.

Tachi 4x5 (on Ries J600 + J250 head)
Fuji A 240mm/9
Fuji Tungsten-64 QuickLoad (w/ 85b filter)
Epson 4990/Epson Scan

[paulr]

Thanks so much everyone. I have an Epson 4870 with a custom wet-mount jig, so I'm familiar with the quality available there. I've been curious to see how much more is available from a drum or Imacon, and how it compares to digital capture at various resolutions.