Comparing scans with 2Mp digital camera

With all these images, the scans are unsharpened, and the images from the digital camera is sharpened to some extent in camera, even when you don't use sharpening.

Provia Detail 1	IXY Digital Detail 1
This is the pixel level detail from the scan above. It seems a little blurry, and in fact it is, this is I think the killer of the midrange scanner. I noticed that in comparison to using a x30 Pentax microscope that there is actually more detail in the provia slide than appears in the scan (see below) (I am sure a better scanner would reveal this)	The pixel level detail in the IXY image, and although its samller, it seems sharper than the Provia image. But it does not have the size or the fine detail that is present on the film. There is no more detail to be had from this image.Make it bigger, and it will break down, but looking side by side, its easy to interpret this as being sharper than the scan.
The detail of the wire in the fence is better in the scan than in the digital, so small feature detail is better from the scan. I'm suspicious that this is so much sharper than the other sectoin because of film flatness	But in the digital its on the limit of resolution, and the fence detail is not clearly visible. So the 35mm scan has got an edge on the digital when taken to full size.

Below is an image taken through the eyepiece of a x30 microscope. Even though I could not get the camera to quite focus properly (so its a little fuzzy), you can see more detail in the roof, and the than I was getting on the scans I took

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