Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/30

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Digital progress
From: Austin Franklin <austin@darkroom.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 08:50:36 -0500
 
> What's the MB value for 100 film?  I think you have the answer and will
> appreciate if you can share it with the rest of us.

It depends on the film type, exposure, development and what you deem as 
equivalent.  My experience shows 8000DPI will get you to 'resolving' grain. 
 That would end up with 8,000 x 12,000 x 3, or 2.88M bytes for 8 bit/pixel 
color, and 96M bytes for 8 bit grayscale.