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Yeah, they're all my images, shot on a Mamiya 7 6x7 camera with Kodak Portra 400 film.
The scanner is a Hasselblad X5, which outside of a drum scanner is probably as good as it gets: fast (it can do 20 full-resolution scans an hour) and equivalently expensive (probably £15,000 new, but I rent them for £30 an hour). The files are the probably largest I've ever had to deal with regularly, it's not because they're big (pixel-wise) but because they're 16 bit images.
Unfortunately, maybe because I'm so painstaking, the retouching process takes a while, about 1 hour per image (sometimes more, sometimes less). After a while, one settles into a routine of retouch, browse LFGSS bike porn, retouch, browse LFGSS current projects, retouch...
Hasselblad X5 scan, 8902 x 7141 pixels, 16 bit 355 meg TIFF
100% crop:
Hasselblad X5 scan, 8616 x 6996, 16 bit 315 meg TIFF
100% crop:
For reference, comparing them to a drum scanner:
Itek/ICG drum scan, 11190 x 8960 pixels, 8 bit, 300 meg TIFF
100% crop:
Itek/ICG drum scan, 8688 x 7038 pixels, 8 bit, 120 meg TIFF
100% crop:
For a digital comparison, my 36 megapixel Nikon D800E (in 5x4 crop mode) would pump out 6144 x 4912 pixels, 16 bit TIFF at about 160-180 megs. A 80 megapixel Phase One or Leaf digital medium format back would of course outsize these scans.