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It'd be nice if they were able to adapt the Hasselblad/Imacon "virtual drum" concept and curve the film underneath the sensor for side-to-side flatness. I wonde

It'd be nice if they were able to adapt the Hasselblad/Imacon "virtual drum" concept and curve the film underneath the sensor for side-to-side flatness. I wonder if that's feasible with a 2D sensor.

buildbot 11mo ago
You could, but it probably makes more sense to do focus stacking in that case
KaiserPro 11mo ago
Thats a good question. I wonder if the "virtual drum" was there to get over film holding issues (as in it physically bends the film) or that its a line scanner personally I think that technology has come on enough to move on from the imacon/hasselblad: https://emulsive.org/articles/opinion/scanning-film-the-20k-imacon-949-vs-the-740-dollar-epson-perfection-v800 https://emulsive.org/articles/opinion/scanning-film-the-20k-...
- leejo 11mo ago
  > Thats a good question. I wonder if the "virtual drum" was there to get over film holding issues (as in it physically bends the film) or that its a line scanner Both. > personally I think that technology has come on enough to move on from the imacon/hasselblad: https://emulsive.org/articles/opinion/scanning-film-the-20k-imacon-949-vs-the-740-dollar-epson-perfection-v800 https://emulsive.org/articles/opinion/scanning-film-the-20k-... It's not - the issue that still remains is keeping the film flat, and this is especially problematic with smaller formats. With current solutions you can get the resolution but not the flatness, or you sacrifice something to get the flatness (e.g. ANR glass holders). It's the old glass vs glassless carrier debate, applied to a modern workflow. I repeat myself: focus, DPI / resolution, dynamic range - these are the solved problems. In fact, modern medium format digital cameras are superior on all these factor. Keeping the film flat, however? Only drum scans and the Imacon "Flextight" solution do this well. Of course, it depends on what you plan to do with the scans and for 99% of people the solution in the link above is more than good enough. I've written about this previously https://leejo.github.io/tags/scanning/ https://leejo.github.io/tags/scanning/ # I'm going to add the fourth, and hopefully final, part in a couple of months time.

It'd be nice if they were able to adapt the Hasselblad/Imacon "virtual drum" concept and curve the film underneath the sensor for side-to-side flatness. I wonder if that's feasible with a 2D sensor.

buildbot 11mo ago

You could, but it probably makes more sense to do focus stacking in that case

KaiserPro 11mo ago

Thats a good question. I wonder if the "virtual drum" was there to get over film holding issues (as in it physically bends the film) or that its a line scanner personally I think that technology has come on enough to move on from the imacon/hasselblad: https://emulsive.org/articles/opinion/scanning-film-the-20k-imacon-949-vs-the-740-dollar-epson-perfection-v800 https://emulsive.org/articles/opinion/scanning-film-the-20k-...

leejo 11mo ago
> Thats a good question. I wonder if the "virtual drum" was there to get over film holding issues (as in it physically bends the film) or that its a line scanner Both. > personally I think that technology has come on enough to move on from the imacon/hasselblad: https://emulsive.org/articles/opinion/scanning-film-the-20k-imacon-949-vs-the-740-dollar-epson-perfection-v800 https://emulsive.org/articles/opinion/scanning-film-the-20k-... It's not - the issue that still remains is keeping the film flat, and this is especially problematic with smaller formats. With current solutions you can get the resolution but not the flatness, or you sacrifice something to get the flatness (e.g. ANR glass holders). It's the old glass vs glassless carrier debate, applied to a modern workflow. I repeat myself: focus, DPI / resolution, dynamic range - these are the solved problems. In fact, modern medium format digital cameras are superior on all these factor. Keeping the film flat, however? Only drum scans and the Imacon "Flextight" solution do this well. Of course, it depends on what you plan to do with the scans and for 99% of people the solution in the link above is more than good enough. I've written about this previously https://leejo.github.io/tags/scanning/ https://leejo.github.io/tags/scanning/ # I'm going to add the fourth, and hopefully final, part in a couple of months time.