>>4300746I use a 45mp Z7, with the Z 50 micro lens, es2 slide mount, and a george kovacs feather halogen lamp to position tye full spectrum bulb behind this tapered diffuser i made that gets thicker at the center to counter the center-edge falloff. BUT, Then I added three extension tubes between the lens & body, to scan 110 slides filling the frame at 45mp too. That worked surprisingly well. BUT THEN, i left the extension tubes on and stuck a 35mm slide back in instead, ritated the slide holder 90deg, and shot the 35mm film in three overlapping shots, then merged them as a pano in Affinity for a 12k x 8k pixel image with the most minimal slide frame border. BUT, also did each shot bracketed an exposure up & down too, and HDR merged them all together. In tye end i still hold up the slide on a little light table in front of my eye & color grade on the imac 5k display side-by-side until i’m happy. Usually its a blend if tye original kodacrome colors and more naturalistic real-world color balance. But the possibilities are enormous packing all that data in one file. I trued the ZF with its pixel shift feature like others have, but found 32x 24mp scans merged into one was needlessly huge. Each file was a gig and if i exported an uncompressed tiff at half or even quarter the size, it contained the same amount of image data. Only less than that did i start to see a change in the detail of each grain. If you print large and/or hires, finding that threshold so your film grain doesnt look like square pixels is important. And unless you want to spend the time to scan all your slides twice, might as well just go big the first time and do them all right once.
