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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;semibovinian, post: 2931436, member: 76467&quot;]A comparison of film macro vs digital:</p><p><br /></p><p>More-or-less full frame film shot (scanned in print): </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]711882[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This an 1805/4 half dollar.&nbsp; The lens used was a (reversed?) 55mm/f2.8 Micro-Nikkor.&nbsp; This was taken in the late 1980s to the mid 1990s.&nbsp; Color balance has been heavily adjusted in Photoshop.&nbsp; Notice the poor focus and fuzzy detail -- the central split-prism rangefinder circle in the viewfinder would have been totally blacked out, so you had to rely on just the ground glass screen.</p><p><br /></p><p>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a digital version of the same coin (but a couple of decades later):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]711883[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>This is a full frame (4000x6000) image reduced for uploading.&nbsp; It was taken with a microscope objective (either 4x, 5x, or 10x, I don&#039;t recall), and focus stacking was used (Zerene Stacker).&nbsp; It&#039;s amazing how much easier it is now, with microscope objectives and stacking.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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