I have a 100 MB file of the slide done on the $70,000 scanner at the place I used to work at. I have a nice 16x20 print on the wall of it in my office. It is a little cyan in the image, but the printer I used to make the print, printed rather "warm" and it made a perfect print. The frame edges are not some Photoshop border, it is the real deal scan of the frame of film. Back in the era of that photo negatives had more grain, so I shot it in Ektachrome 100.
Of course I still have the original slide of the top photo. Even kept in a dark place that slide has faded some over the years.
I set my camera up on a tripod, asked a buddy to press the exposure button and I drove past four times. That scanner was amazing, a full blown photogrammetric scanner and I scanned it as a native 12 micron resolution scan. The scanner had two plates of glass that flattened the film. It was almost magic how it never had newton rings.
