  High-resolution imaging spectroscopy in solar physics has relied on
Fabry-Perot Interferometers (FPIs) in recent years. FPI systems, however, get
technically challenging and expensive for telescopes larger than the 1-m class.
A conventional slit spectrograph with a diffraction-limited performance over a
large field of view (FOV) can be built at much lower cost and effort. It can be
converted to an imaging spectro(polari)meter using the concept of a subtractive
double pass (SDP). We demonstrate that an SDP system can reach a similar
performance as FPI-based systems with a high spatial and moderate spectral
resolution across a FOV of 100"x100" with a spectral coverage of 1 nm. We use
Halpha spectra taken with a SDP system at the Dunn Solar Telescope and
complementary full-disc data to infer the properties of small-scale
superpenumbral filaments. We find that the majority of all filaments end in
patches of opposite-polarity fields. The internal fine-structure in the
line-core intensity of Halpha at spatial scales of about 0.5" exceeds that in
other parameters such as the line width, indicating small-scale opacity effects
in a larger-scale structure with common properties. We conclude that SDP
systems are a valid alternative to FPI systems when high spatial resolution and
a large FOV are required. They also can reach a cadence that is comparable to
that of FPI systems, while providing a much larger spectral range.
