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Old July 1st 04, 09:12 PM
Silvio Manuel
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Default Digital camera versus Digital Film Scanner

In article ,
(Mike) wrote:

Has anyone a link or material to share regarding how digital camera's
compare to scanning film on a film scanner?

Is the sensor technology the same or is one better than the other?

Assuming I had the same number of megapixels would one have better
color information than the other? For example, reading about CMOS
sensors in digital cameras, each pixel is a gray value in RAW. The
camera then interprets the colors based on surrounding pixels and the
bayer filter values, is that the way film scanners work too?

Any other major differences in quality of output?


In general good cameras produce cleaner image files at a smaller
size.....but film allows for a much larger print to be made.

If you want nice digital files you'll pay either way.

A good alternative is shoot Medium format and scan it.

That way your not spending 14k
on an Imacon scanner or 5K on a 1D Mark II.
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