Originally Posted by
Pere Casals
Steven, if you had at home a V850 and a drum probably you would be making 90% of the LF scans with the V850, and you woudn't be the first one in that situation.
While a drum is a way superior machine it happens many times that the print size does not require more quality, having much more optical pixels in the image in that ppi in the print has no effect !!!
And also it can happen that the negative has no more information than the one that the V850 can retrieve, because diffraction, shake, focus... in a 3D scene not all objects are in the perfect plane of focus.
Then it happens that a V850 has more resolving power for 4x5 than a Hasselblad X5 !!!
There are situations where a drum makes a really big difference, but also for LF in many situations simply it's not worth to mount the negative for the drum, given what it's obtained with the V850.
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