Originally Posted by
interneg
Pere - it's pretty easy to skew a test to 'prove' that your cheap scanner 'outperforms' a professional workhorse or that a drumscanned 8x10 is 'outperformed' by the Phase One de jour. It makes for easy clickbait, & the hard work necessary to dismantle such nonsense takes time, money & a lot of effort. I've handled plenty of images scanned from 120 & 4x5 on Epsons & the sad truth is that they pale next to a competent scan from a Hasselblad, or an iQSmart or a Heidelberg or anything like that. It doesn't matter if the film is B&W, C41 or E6, the difference is visible, especially in prints. I've seen a fair few bad scans off high end kit too, but it's often bad sharpening decisions or poor colour correction (ie operator error) or a poorly maintained scanner rather than fundamental shortcomings with the scanner on a technological level. Rooting around in the weeds of aliasing isn't going to help your case either - yes the Hasselblad will alias grain, but that's largely a problem with 35mm at the highest resolution settings.
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