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Hi, this is only my 3rd or 4th post on TP, so please bear with me. I may be asking too many questions in one here, and I think I'm not entirely clear what my questions are. To go back a bit...
I've recently bought a Fuji X10 after a decade of wholly auto P&S, and it's reminded me that I ought to (re-)learn a bit of the photographic techniques I used to know. At around the same time, my son gave me back the old Pentax ME (with 50mm f/1.7 lens) I bought from new in the 1970s. It had a film in it so I finished it off and had it processed; the results were disappointing, but it was only Boots film. So I bought a roll of Fuji Superia 200 and had another try near home (Kenilworth). I took my X10 with me, and took at least one comparison shot with the X10 at its "50mm" lens setting. I took this film to Snappy Snaps in Coventry, and got developing plus a CD with lo res scans on it. I was always intending to scan the negatives using my Plustek 7500i (with Silverfast SE Plus 6.6) that I've scanned some 4,000 slides and negatives already, including a few from this camera in earlier days.
So much for the background, now to the point. I'm not expecting it to show at these resolutions or this picture, but I'm left feeling the Pentax lens is soft, whereas it's generally described as sharp. But what stunned me was the poor colour rendering and also high grain on the higher resolution scans. Maybe it's simply the Fuji film profile on Silverfast being... rubbish, but I just couldn't get the colour right. As you can see the low res scan from Snappy Snaps is much closer to the X10 colour (which roughly fits my memory, it was a sunny day). There are also lots of drying streaks on other negatives, ad this one has some scrapes on it, I think (centre building to right of window), all absent from the lo res scans.
So if I want decent higher res scans, am I going to have to get a lab to do them at time of processing?
And if I want better colour, am I better off using colour reversal film?
OK, here are the pics. First the X10:
Then the lo res Pentax scan:
Then my own higher res Pentax scan (obviously reduced here):
Thanks! Chris
I've recently bought a Fuji X10 after a decade of wholly auto P&S, and it's reminded me that I ought to (re-)learn a bit of the photographic techniques I used to know. At around the same time, my son gave me back the old Pentax ME (with 50mm f/1.7 lens) I bought from new in the 1970s. It had a film in it so I finished it off and had it processed; the results were disappointing, but it was only Boots film. So I bought a roll of Fuji Superia 200 and had another try near home (Kenilworth). I took my X10 with me, and took at least one comparison shot with the X10 at its "50mm" lens setting. I took this film to Snappy Snaps in Coventry, and got developing plus a CD with lo res scans on it. I was always intending to scan the negatives using my Plustek 7500i (with Silverfast SE Plus 6.6) that I've scanned some 4,000 slides and negatives already, including a few from this camera in earlier days.
So much for the background, now to the point. I'm not expecting it to show at these resolutions or this picture, but I'm left feeling the Pentax lens is soft, whereas it's generally described as sharp. But what stunned me was the poor colour rendering and also high grain on the higher resolution scans. Maybe it's simply the Fuji film profile on Silverfast being... rubbish, but I just couldn't get the colour right. As you can see the low res scan from Snappy Snaps is much closer to the X10 colour (which roughly fits my memory, it was a sunny day). There are also lots of drying streaks on other negatives, ad this one has some scrapes on it, I think (centre building to right of window), all absent from the lo res scans.
So if I want decent higher res scans, am I going to have to get a lab to do them at time of processing?
And if I want better colour, am I better off using colour reversal film?
OK, here are the pics. First the X10:
Then the lo res Pentax scan:
Then my own higher res Pentax scan (obviously reduced here):
Thanks! Chris
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