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I have a lot of old slides from my film days. I have a very good scanner Nikon Super Coolscan 500 ED. I used it a lot in the past but now I will have to get a third-party software to operate it. Nikon discontinued its production sometime ago and does not support software anymore, but does support its hardware repair, since this scanner continues to be a very high-demand device to this day. So I cannot use this scanner right now, but I tried my copying with the Z7. I do have some bellows to do the copying.
My question: I wonder, since the Z7 has such a high resolution, if using the Z7 will yield better results than this real 35mm scanner... Nikon Coolscan has 4000 dpi resolution. The slide film is about 24 x 36mm, so the resolution is about 4000 x 6000. So just a simple comparison, the Z7 has more resolution than that. But the scanner has some more features, such as x4 and x8 sampling... I do not know exactly what it is doing, but probably trying to get more detail from the shadow are of the transparency. My slides are 95% Kodacrome 25. I like to extract every bit of detail from my slides.
My question: I wonder, since the Z7 has such a high resolution, if using the Z7 will yield better results than this real 35mm scanner... Nikon Coolscan has 4000 dpi resolution. The slide film is about 24 x 36mm, so the resolution is about 4000 x 6000. So just a simple comparison, the Z7 has more resolution than that. But the scanner has some more features, such as x4 and x8 sampling... I do not know exactly what it is doing, but probably trying to get more detail from the shadow are of the transparency. My slides are 95% Kodacrome 25. I like to extract every bit of detail from my slides.
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