Hi all,
First of all I would like to say that I'm so happy with all the information you're providing and with this thread in general. Thank you! Though I haven't been active before, you've been of incredible value to me and getting my Screen Cézanne up and running.
I mostly photograph 35mm and MF B/W and I'm using the Cézanne to scan my photos and print them at about 1m in size for exhibitions. Which is possible thanks to the extreme quality of the scans which are bitingly sharp!
However, lately I've been noticing that my scans are not that sharp anymore! I used to scan at 5300 dpi for 35mm, which produced great results but nowadays I have to scale back to about 4000 dpi to get the same result I used to have.
I have cleaned the mirror, cleaned the scanning bed, reset everything to default values, but nothing seems to help.
Now I can stay at 4000 dpi and be happy with the quality I have but I'm afraid that the quality will go down more. Moreover, since I'm printing large, I want to squeeze out as much resolution that I can.
Would you have any suggestions on what could be the cause? I'm always using the same film (Kodak Tri-X) pushed to 1600 and using HC-110 to develop.
Thanks so much in advance for any advice that you're able to give.
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