Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Austin writes: > You will see "something", but not lines. "Something" is all you really ever see, no matter how good the scan. Modulation transfer is a continuum, not a binary value. The line is never completely there or completely not there, it is only visible to varying degrees. > By your understanding, you could just use one > pixel to sample the entire scene! You need at least two pixels. However, given two pixels, you can sample anything, depending on your threshold of acceptance for the degree of contrast detected. Of course, a scanner with only 2 DPI will scan 53 lp/mm with an extremely low transfer value, probably too low to be useful.