Adox CMS20II Deep Dive - Part 2
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- Let's dig into the scans of Adox CMS20II. In this video we cover scans from our Noritsu HS1800 and Eversmart Supreme II.
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In Part 3 we'll make some real darkroom prints!
I’ve used ADOX HR-50 and obtained really excellent results. I’ll give CMS-20ii a try this Summer. I shoot Minox 8X11 cameras, so the tighter the grain, the better.
That's a perfect use case if you can use a tripod or if you have sufficient light for those exposures. I haven't tried HR-50 yet but it's on my list.
Do you find the 30 megapixels of the 1800 scanner to be enough for 35mm? This seems to be the highest resolution of most labs, but It's not getting everything from this film? What scanner would be better?
Great question! Honestly I find the Noritsu pulls out all the useful detail on most 35mm films. In fact, the 6.5 megapixel scans are perfectly suitable for many camera and film combinations. Portra 160 and Ektar look great at the 30 megapixel size, or the medium and low speed B&W films. The available chrome films, tabular B&W films, possibly Ektar, and certainly CMS20II benefit from a higher resolution scan. To do this you could use an Imacon which for 35mm, will resolve 8000ppi. Some drum scanners exceed this. CMS20II will benefit from as much as a 12,000ppi scan, it's that good. That being said, once you meet the needs of a 44" printer, the utility of a higher resolution scan is somewhat academic. When customers order our largest print size, 24x36", we use an Eversmart Supreme II, and it's 5600ppi.
@@northeastphotographic Awesome! Thank you for the detailed response, one last question, do you know why the resolution is lower for medium format on the frontier/noritsu than it is for 35mm?
Honestly,having shot quite afew rollsof this film using. Nikon primes, only a drum scanner can bring out all the resolution this film has to offer.
There are 11,000ppi drum scanners which would probably be a good match for this film. I tend to think this film does well with darkroom enlargement as well. Once you hit 11x14 from a darkroom print you're starting to notice how your images just have no grain. I still have a lot of it and I plan to shoot it...the thing that holds me back though is if I want grainless images, why not just use large format?
That is a good question. I'd say that even a properly executed and processed MF TMax 100 or even. Pan F would give you similar results with much better tonality and flexibility in processing, but we do like to mess around. This film really taxes a photographer's technique and equipment and sadly here most of today's photographers come short.
@@lensman5762 Honestly, the way to use this film IMHO is to buy it in 100' rolls and make 12 or 16 exposure lengths. The 36 exposure roll is what makes it impractical. On a tripod with a good lens it is a decent stand in for medium format but like you said, TMax 100 already gives grainless results in most normal enlargement sizes with much less fuss. I would even go further and say if you want that grainless look in smaller formats, even Pan-F is a waste of effort compared to the T-Grain stuff. But yes...what's the fun in all that practical thinking? I have a bunch of Adox and I shoot it! Heck, I have some frozen TechPan in 8x10!