Film Scanning Question (20D equivalent)

"Douglas..." <canvaspix DeleteThis @yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
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> bmoag wrote:
>> Any dedicated film scanner from Minolta, Nikon or (if you can still get
>> one) the Cannon 4000 will totally outperform the 20d and a transparency
>> adapter.
> I have no axe to grind here but it is statements like this which tell me
> you don't own a digital camera - of any resolution. If you did and you
> used Photoshop or any of the other popular editing programs you'd know
> that even a 2 Megapixel image can, when interpolated, exceed the image
> quality of a 35mm film scanned on any of the scanners you mentioned.
>
Can't you, "interpolate" an image after (or before) scanning it into
Photoshop with a 5000 ppi film scanner?

William Graham wrote:
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> Well, I intend to purchase a medium priced film scanner (probably the
> Konica-Minolta 5400) later this month, and I am hoping to be able to make
> decent 8 x 10 enlargements of some of my color slides with it. I doubt if I
> will ever need to go larger than that, but I may want to crop out a smaller
> portion of one of my slides and blow that up, so I will be effectively
> enlarging the images to a greater size occasionally.
Make sure you get the 5400II: it's faster and that's important with these
slow devices. The KM software is reasonable, but 16bit support is limited,
and 8 bit usually insufficient. So you need to spend something extra on
scanning software. Examples are Vuescan and Silverfast. Since it is rumored
that support for KM by Vuescan is not so good I bought Silverfast. However,
after some serious crashes with that I'm not so sure anymore I made the best
choice...

good luck, Hans

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