Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/06

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: scanning B&W: salt and pepper appearance
From: "Rodgers, David" <david.rodgers@xo.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 11:15:42 -0500

In terms of resolution, what's said of the LS-2000 can be said of the LS-30,
too. The LS-30 is nearly identical to the  LS-2000, except for firmware
which limits a few things, like 10-bits per color channel color output
instead of 12. (But there are work arounds). 

- -----Original Message-----
From: Mxsmanic [mailto:mxsmanic@hotmail.com]
Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 12:49 AM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: scanning B&W: salt and pepper appearance


Mark E Davison writes:

> The point is that the LS-2000 just isn't resolving
> the grain patterns.

Digital images of 3826x2551 pixels in size or less cannot resolve grain any
better than the LS-2000.  This is true even of the world's best print scans.
And an ink-jet printer, even when printing a 16x19-inch print, cannot
resolve
any better than about 3600x2400 pixels, which is even worse than the
LS-2000.
So whatever differences you see between print scans and film scans using
ink-jet
output at anything less than poster size, it is unlikely to be a consequence
of
any lack of resolution on the part of the LS-2000.<<