>>3894279>>3894303Cheers anons.
There are a couple things to be able to resolve grain, as long as the hardware is there.
About the "hardware being there" pretty much any dedicated scanner will be good.
Another thing is sharpening, which all scans need.
If you're resizing from a larger image, you can choose a "sharper" resizing algorithm so you can have sharper (resized) images and maintain a bit more detail without having to sharpen to final (resized) image.
Bilinear is the "softest" algorithm, Lanczos the "sharpest", Bicubic a good middle ground. Mind you, different subjects look best with different algorithms. Lanczos for instance can be too sharp sometimes, creating artifacts. And Bilinear might be the "softest" but hides grain well so it might be what you want for a portrait or something with lots of smooth gradients (sky, buildings etc.).
One last thing, but not really important and with small benefit, is that some scanners give better results scanning at max res and resizing, rather than scanning at the lower res in the first place, even when the lower res is the scanner's tested system resolution.
Lastly, the bigger the grain (faster the film), and the sharper the grain (accutance developers instead of fine grain), the easiest it is to resolve it.
That's why I posted an almost "worst case" scenario: a fine grain film (PanF+), pulled one stop (so even less grain) and devved in a relatively fine grain developer (Perceptol 1+3, the higher the dilution the less fine the grain, though still fine).
If this can be resolved adequately to the grain level, then pretty much all the usual suspects like TriX, HP5+, TMax, Delta etc. in general purpose developers, will be resolved quite easily.
The only relatively practical film I discovered the hardware is at its limit and grain is on the verge of being resolved (you can see it but you can also see clumping and it's not 100% resolved clearly), is Rollei Retro 80S (Adox HR50), which has exceptionally low grain.
