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Well I knew for 35mm colour neg film..... a digi was superior in resolution but didn't realise how good Velvia 50 slide film was until I read two posts and one was:- you would need a 175 MP sensor (24 x 36 mm AKA FF) to match Velvia on digital. The other post was a guy used Velvia and a digi for an autumn shot and the digi was inferior in that Velvia produced more variations in colour and was so superior.
But the basic problem remains in getting the maximum detail off the film cheaply.......instead of Ferrania spend thousands producing a new film IMO the money received\invested would better spent on "someone" to design an affordable scanner that can scan at high resolution.
 
Care to post some links to said posts / discussions Brian? All a bit he said she said without any evidence for said arguments ;)
 
You can squeeze every ounce of detail out of the film by using a top quality lens on an enlarger, but not for slide film anymore, obviously. I've read a few comments to the effect of Ektar 100 being close to Velvia 100 in terms of the detail it can capture, but I haven't seen any scientific tests.

Regarding the scanner: You don't need to invest much money: Fuji could simply make a consumer friendly version of the Frontier and flog it cheap. But there wouldn't be any profit in it, so I doubt they would ever bother.
 
Slide is fablious, colours are so rich and the grain so fine but you can't print it and it comes up short on dr.
Scanners are the weak link, I dunno why we can't just keep doing Ciba/ilfochromes, I like the fact that lots of effort is invested in making them..:)
 
FujiLove said:
You can squeeze every ounce of detail out of the film by using a top quality lens on an enlarger, but not for slide film anymore, obviously. I've read a few comments to the effect of Ektar 100 being close to Velvia 100 in terms of the detail it can capture, but I haven't seen any scientific tests.

Regarding the scanner: You don't need to invest much money: Fuji could simply make a consumer friendly version of the Frontier and flog it cheap. But there wouldn't be any profit in it, so I doubt they would ever bother.
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...and the Chinese can copy anything cheaply...where are they when filmies need them ;)
 
I must admit slide is my fave also, I use slide film quite a lot (when I get chance).
I recently upgraded my scanner and its so much better than the old one for getting details out.
 
Back in the days when slides were the only source of colour photography for us amateurs we used to copy slides with a camera. Surely, it is not beyond the wit of man or woman to take copies of slides or negatives using a modern digital camera.
 
Littletank said:
Back in the days when slides were the only source of colour photography for us amateurs we used to copy slides with a camera. Surely, it is not beyond the wit of man or woman to take copies of slides or negatives using a modern digital camera.
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no advantage over using a digital camera in the first place.
Slides were the preferred medium for Print reproduction.
They were also best viewed by projection.
They never had the versatility oh the neg Pos process for photographic print making.
Ciba chrome never became mainstream. and used environmentally unfriendly and dangerous chemistry, but was not particularly difficult to process.
 
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