stuart_stent

<p>In theory the 50mm prime stopped down 2 stops will be sharper than the zoom, as lenses are never at their best wide open.<br>

Being a prime it is also less likely to show chromatic or other aberrations. Ans yes i know they can be corrected in S/W but it's never as good as a clean initial image.</p>

I did some test scans last night using vuescan to TIFFs(48bit).

The result was a lovely 60mb tiff.

I then imported these tiffs into lightroom and converted them to DNG. Resulting

in a 16mb DNG.

my question is, am I losing any data by doing this, or is the DNG just a lot

more efficient?

I've got a bunch of old negatives (35mm) that I want to scan wiuth vuescan and

turn into DNGs, which I'll then import into Lightroom so I can manage them along

with the rest of my images.

I currently have 2 scanners;

A Canon 9900f with film adapters

An Acer Scanwit 2720s

The Canon gives me an option of 3200dpi and the Acer 2700dpi

The Canon also takes 4 strips at a time rather than the 1 of the acer.

I have an funny feeling the the Acer will actually give a better scan even

though it has a lower DPI.

What do you think ?

Hi,

I'm looking at buying an 18-200VR for my d70s to replace the 18-70 and 55-200VR

I already have.

I am wondering if i should hang on the old lenses as backups or should I just

trade them in ?

PS. Also if I buy lens while on holiday in the US and then take it back to

Australia does that then get considered a grey import by nikon or will they

honour the warranty because i bought an American lens in America ?

Cheers,

Stuart