digital/srl film

[Stephen Lutz]

This is misleading. At about 2700-3000 dpi, you are down to the level of film grain. Much more than that gains you nothing other than large files with lots of redundant (and useless) data. You can't read subportions of grain! People have actually scanned to the point of seeing the rough backing on Fuji film (the famous "Fuji Pepper").

I used to get pretty serious grain, even at the highest scanning resolutions I could get. But the scanning grain wan't the big deal with scanning film. The big deal was dust specks. Jesus, talk about a hassle! Scan one frame, then clone out dust for 20 minutes. Per frame!

To me, for 35mm anyway, the only way film makes any sense is if you are going to shoot black and white, develop it yourself, and print it (with dodge and burn, etc) to make your own unique "art" prints.