35mm that is.

Hmm. I want a printer like the one they used. lol.

http://fwd.five.tv/videos/challenge-blow-up-part-3

:)

thanks for sharing, the more i'm itching to get a FF camera.

Ron, Cool!! I need to save up for a FF cam but might just stick with film for a while. BTW when will the Lomomanila forum be up sir?

daniel: i dunno its really been a while. hopefully this month :)

now to save up for a 5d. haha.

Film already loses the blow-up challenge a long time ago. I don't how can film blow-up to 20ftX60ft @300 dpi even using 10X10 large format film. My point-n-shoot G9 can do it :D

http://www.digitalphotographer.com.ph/forum/showthread.php?t=19033

wonder why they used an iso400 film? high iso is just not film's strength. they could just have used iso100 on both cameras, coz iso100 film is the one most widely used anyway. and film shooters who really want the best IQ use iso100 or lower.

not that i'm favoring film. i've long decided myself digital is better, even with the lowly 300D. but just to help film a bit ... :)

I wonder what type of scanner they used also. and this is not a film/digital debate. I like film the way it is and i like the clean images that my 4 year old dslr produces.

bobby: yeah actually. they were in the studio so they could have used iso100 instead.

I think the whole show is exag, since they're trying to find their niche against lets say mythbusters... but overall its an entertaining vid :)

I agree with Ari here. If they digitize the film shots using a scanner (regardless of how fancy it is), its not about film vs. digital bout, but rather a scanner vs. D700...

If they have printed the photos optically (via the traditional darkroom techniques of projection and such), then it makes for a better contest...

However, honestly, I won't be holding my breath for film though... Although I still love film... :)

From the looks of it they were standing about 5m away from a print that's 17m high. Kinda like reading a magazine from 3 inches away. I don't think my eyes could focus that close. :Grin:

Roger: hahahahaha.

I asked this question before in the forum actually... the ISO settings of new cams don't seem to correlate with film speed anymore in terms of grain. New cams are virtually noise-free till 800 these days...

Film already loses the blow-up challenge a long time ago. I don't how can film blow-up to 20ftX60ft @300 dpi even using 10X10 large format film. My point-n-shoot G9 can do it :D

http://www.digitalphotographer.com.ph/forum/showthread.php?t=19033

Iv'e seen your samples mitz,they are awesome. This guy used 9x18. Old school style :)

http://www.cliffordross.com/R1/gigapixel.html

Here's a sample: http://www.cliffordross.com/zoomview/R1-detail.html

More here: http://www.gigapxl.org/
From the same site:
Why not use a digital camera?

Modern frame-exposure professional digital cameras have spatial resolutions ranging of 4-16 megapixels in "35mm D-SLR" formats and up to 22 megapixels for medium format backs. Using such cameras to create gigapixel images requires mosaicing hundreds of individual exposures. Alternatively, strip-sensors can be used to scan the image plane over a few seconds time. Even so, however, large format scanning backs have final image resolutions 1-2 decades below our gigapixel regime and require relatively static scenes, as does the mosaic approach, and are thus generally inappropriate for photos of traffic, people, water, and events. The single-exposure advantage is pronounced in images with crowds of people. The facial expressions of an half a stadium of fans can be captured at passport resolution in a single instant as they react to events on the field.

http://homepage.mac.com/onehundredbhq/.Public/homer.jpg
Mmmm.... blow-up....

:D