early returns

Here it is, the first batch of legit pix from my 4x5. Let me tell you something about the detail available to you when you're weilding 20 square inches of T-Max 100: there is a lot of it. For example:
Rauner Library, Dartmouth College (click on the pic to see it bigger):

See the lady at the desk at the bottom of the frame?

She's reading my newspaper (headline "What a Winter"). The picture on our left (her right) is mine.

See the book titled "The Fear of God?" Fourth shelf from the top of this blowup, near the left.

Let me zoom in a little more for you.


The detail scans were made at 9600 dpi, which would come in real handy if I wanted to blow these photos up to about 10 by 15 feet at 300 dpi.
The amazing part: this whole 4x5 kit (including film) cost about as much a Canon 30D with a cheap kit lens, and yet it captures something like 40 times more detail.
Just for fun, here is a crop from a 4-megapixel digital SLR of the same area, shot with the equivalent lens from the same position at the same time.