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Streetcar at Night on ET160 Comparative Scans

Last night I made two scans of an ET 160 (Tungsten balance) Ektachrome slide. This film was designed for use with incandescent lighting.

I exposed this slide as part of sequnece of night images at the Connecticut Trolley Museum in East Windsor, CT in December 1993.

The first scan was using an Epson V600 flatbed scanner powered with Epson Scan 2 software. The second was using a Nikon LS5000 Slide scanner powered with the latest VueScan software (version 9.7.96).

Other than scale the scans for presentation here, I made no changes to color, exposure, sharpness etc.

I’ve included a greatly magnified portion of each scan for comparison.

Epson V600 scan; 3200 dpi TIF format, scaled for internet.
Nikon LS 5000 scan at 4,000 dpi TIF format, scaled for internet.

V600 scan enlarged.
Nikon LS 5000 scan enlarged

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