High-Res-Scan of a Leica-Neg.

[volker_meyer]

Hello,

 

can anybody mail me a high-res-scan (4000 dpi)of a Leica-M-Neg?

 

Thank you,

 

Volker Meyer

[william_john_smith]

Thats 128meg! You have a fast connection?

[Rob F.]

Volker, what are you going to do with it?

[volker_meyer]

I just want to see the quality - a jpg-file with low compression should be fine for this (~ 6 - 8 MB)

[mark_ng]

HUH???

[r s]

1) What's a Leica M-Neg?<br>

A photo taken with a Leica camera? Which one? Any lens? <br>Does it matter if the lens is from the 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's, etc?<br>

What focal length?<br>How about a Bessa with an M-lens?

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2) The quality?<br>

What quality are you to judge? The photographers ability to focus?<br>Low light shooting?

[jonathan_reynolds]

What Rich said. Plus what film speed, colour or BW, aperture, etc....?

 

What is the motivation for this suspected troll?

[__jon__]

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[frank granovski]

Why not ask someone for a slide and and scan that?

[jtk]

I doubt Volker is trolling...think about it...what if a bunch of folks sent him 4000mp files!

[peter_mann3]

Perhaps Volker wants to know what I would like to know, too How do prints made from scans compare to prints made from negatives? I know what print quality to expect from a good Leica made film negative, but have no idea what a print of the same negative would look like from a high resolution scan.

[jeff voorhees]

What about French toast instead of a pancake? It's more European.

[absinthe]

Yeah, but it has that oogy crust on it

[j. parsons]

Hi,

I just scanned a bunch of slides taken with a Leica. At 6300 dpi

they are 32.5 MB. For looking at pictures on a computer monitor

this is overkill many times over. 720 dpi or so is about right to fill

up your screen at 72 dpi (the computer montior's maximum

resolution).

 

If the scanner sucks, it doesn't matter how high the resolution is.

I used both a flat bed scanner and an Imacon drum scanner and

the difference in image quality is profound. The Imacon really

reveals what your Leica can do. Digital technology is a friend of

the Leica photographer.

 

I can try and send you an example, but it will be a couple of days.

[rolfe_tessem]

Well, I have many, many scans of Leica negs and transparencies made on my Nikon 9000.

Normally, I make the levels and curves adjustments at 16 bits and then downsample to 8

bits for the TIFF file that I consider my master. Those are about 60 meg. I can certainly FTP

one to someplace if you like.

[j. parsons]

I was scanning 8 bit, maybe why my files were smaller?

[christian hilmersen www.]

4000dpi using a Nikon Coolscan V/ed using vuescan and multipass is not enough. If you want to see the limits I guess you would have to use an Imacon...but I haven't tried it so I do not know. What I know is that the resolution I get from the coolscan is not enough to see all the details found in a delta 100 negative. (I only have hexar scans) But, resolution isn't everything. The main difference between my hexar and canon shots are the other things...like the oof areas.

[volker_meyer]

Hi everybody,

 

I just want to see one high-res-scan of a slide taken with a Leica M Camera with a 50 mm lens.

 

Still waiting for just one 4000 dpi scan... jpg!

 

Thanks,

 

Volker

[w_byrn]

Was the bunny photographed by a Leica?