drugstore scan vs. Canon PIXMA MP990
The screenshot in the cut shows this image zoomed into my daughter's right eye (left of the image). The exposure was indoors with 400 speed 35mm film, lit by natural light through a window.
The image on the left, as uploaded to Flickr, came from my local CVS pharmacy, a 1023x1542 JPEG produced by their Noritsu-Koku scanner. The image on the right is a 4528x6800 TIFF produced by a Canon PIXMA MP990, processed using ArcSoft PhotoStudio. I have not learned how to use unsharp mask effectively, but the added resolution gives me an immediate advantage. Look at the reflection in my daughter's retina. In the CVS scan, I see white and gray pixels. In my scanned image, I see the view of the landscape out my kitchen window. Incredible. The MP990 finds much more color data in shadows, so I need not struggle to make tone adjustments on black pixels.
The image on the left, as uploaded to Flickr, came from my local CVS pharmacy, a 1023x1542 JPEG produced by their Noritsu-Koku scanner. The image on the right is a 4528x6800 TIFF produced by a Canon PIXMA MP990, processed using ArcSoft PhotoStudio. I have not learned how to use unsharp mask effectively, but the added resolution gives me an immediate advantage. Look at the reflection in my daughter's retina. In the CVS scan, I see white and gray pixels. In my scanned image, I see the view of the landscape out my kitchen window. Incredible. The MP990 finds much more color data in shadows, so I need not struggle to make tone adjustments on black pixels.