Re: Minolta has discontinued its Medium format scanner

David J. Littleboy wrote:


> For starters, the design of the Epsons (the offset CCD) precludes them from
> providing photographically significant image contrast above one half the
> nominal resolution.

Can you explain that a bit more, David? First time I heard
the "offset CCD" and why would it be relevant? Any urls
wheer I can read about it? TIA

> People who like counting angels on heads of pins
> will claim that it can respond to patterns near its Nyquist frequency, but
> no one has seen that in real life from real images.

Ah! But what about elfs on pins?
;)

> wonderful. But they don't compete in either resolution or dynamic range with
> real film scanners.

IMHO, the 4990 does a credible job of handling colour negatives.
For slides, I agree 100% with you. Don't ask me why it should be
so, I don't know enough of scanning theory to debate it.
Just my feelings based on my results, no elfs.

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