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Regarding Frontier scans:
My experience is as a customer. I've never used the scanner myself.
To me it sounds like your files have been through a process by which their output file size has been specified, like in Lightroom.
Did the lab perhaps increase file size to 'spec' after noticing those particular, low-detail images had created relatively small file sizes? You can probably tell ... is the resolution now huge, and different for each?
Some perspective: If your files were created at the sufficient resolution and saved as a .tiff (even with LZW or another lossless compression) then you're files are effectivley as good as possible. You can't see lossless compression.
miro_o-
To me it sounds like your files have been through a process by which their output file size has been speccified
..yeah that was my first thought as well, it would make sense.
Resolution is the same for all though - all are 16.9 MB, 2433 x 2433 px, no matter if almost black or very detailled and colourful..
salad
A question for people experienced with Fuji / Frontier scanners -
Found a place in Berlin that scans medium format for a reasonable price (yay!).
Got my first roll / the scans back from them, then realised one thing that is weird:
All the files (coming via WeTransfer in a folder named "Export TIFF 16Base") are excactly the same size -
they're 8 bit .TIF files, 2433 x 2433 px (can deliver detailled raw specs from PS if necessary), all of them exactly 16.9 MB - no matter the content; some images are basically black, some very detailled and colourful.
Asked a guy working there about it and he basically couldn't tell me what's up as he's new to frontiers.
(It's like one of these, maybe an older model)
There's basically two options in the scanning software for what he calls "full quality" scans - one being this "export TIFF 16 base" (if I recall correctly) - the other being "lossless".
I figured since apparently the files I got were all somehow compressed (in comparison the 35mm scans give ~25 MB tiffs for some reason) I would be better off with that "lossless" option - alas these "can't be opened with photoshop or anything else, only with specialised Fuji software".
Can anybody tell me what's going on / how to open these "lossless" (.RAW) files?
He gave me one of these so I could try myself, they do open up in PS, but just showing weirdness -