Home made sharp scan without blooming to compare with the commercial photofinisher supplied scan with blooming
See the clearness and definition where the white lettering meets the black paint in this home scan. Then look at the blooming from a scan done by a photofinisher and sold to me on a CDROM.
This is one of two cuts of a pixel per pixel scan from two different machines. The film was Kodachrome shot through a very nice six element lens on a Kodak Retina IIIc in 2010 as part of my last Kodachrome use.
One was scanned by a well know photofinisher of good reputation. The clear one was scanned by me with a Nikon home unit. When I got the disc from the photofinisher I was shocked at how poor my recently acquired lens was. I thought what a waste of my last Kodachrome. Then I looked at it through a high powered loupe, then a microscope. The poor result was from the poor commercial scanner. I ran through about 10 rolls at the same time from three different cameras which I had thought would do justice to Kodachrome. All of the commercial scans were bad and shouldn’t even have made it onto the disc.
Home made sharp scan without blooming to compare with the commercial photofinisher supplied scan with blooming
See the clearness and definition where the white lettering meets the black paint in this home scan. Then look at the blooming from a scan done by a photofinisher and sold to me on a CDROM.
This is one of two cuts of a pixel per pixel scan from two different machines. The film was Kodachrome shot through a very nice six element lens on a Kodak Retina IIIc in 2010 as part of my last Kodachrome use.
One was scanned by a well know photofinisher of good reputation. The clear one was scanned by me with a Nikon home unit. When I got the disc from the photofinisher I was shocked at how poor my recently acquired lens was. I thought what a waste of my last Kodachrome. Then I looked at it through a high powered loupe, then a microscope. The poor result was from the poor commercial scanner. I ran through about 10 rolls at the same time from three different cameras which I had thought would do justice to Kodachrome. All of the commercial scans were bad and shouldn’t even have made it onto the disc.