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10 hours ago, colint544 said:

I scanned the negs at maximum resolution on a Hasselblad scanner

ive just started to shoot 135 film and have the images scanned by my lab. i dont have a clue when it comes to film, but i wonder whether the resolution test was in fact between the M11 vs the Hasselblad. would M11 vs print yield a different result? 

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13 hours ago, sometimesmaybe said:

ive just started to shoot 135 film and have the images scanned by my lab. i dont have a clue when it comes to film, but i wonder whether the resolution test was in fact between the M11 vs the Hasselblad. would M11 vs print yield a different result? 

The Hasselblad scanner comes very close to the quality of a drum scan. I don't own the scanner, but I'm lucky enough to be a member of a place where I have access to it. So if I scan a negative, I'm pretty much wringing every drop of information from it. An image from an M11 is straight from the SD card, so not really a scan, as such. Viewing both on a screen is a useful way to imagine how they would look as prints, in terms of tonality and sharpness.

There are pretty much no limits any more. Even back in the day, I had a huge print made from a picture I shot on a Nikon D1, which is only two megapixels, and the print looked great.

Here is a street scene, shot at 60MP on my M11 -

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Here is the same scene on the Plaubel Makina 67 -

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Cropping right into the car numberplate, I can read 'Andrew Watt' at the bottom of the plate in tiny letters on the file from the M11. It's less distinct on the 6x7 negative, but to be expected.

It all comes down to the overall look, I suppose. It's too easy to go down the rabbit hole of chasing ever sharper images.

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