Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/29

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Scanning
From: "Austin Franklin" <darkroom@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 08:56:04 -0400

My comment was meant as a chide on our "friend" claiming that 2700 SPI was
all anyone needed...which, I believe, has been shown to be an entirely false
assertion.  Sounds like you will get better scans from a decent 4000 SPI
scanner.

> Austin,
>
> two reasons. I used to make 16x20 prints from slides (Cibachrome +
> Ektachrome prestige). The current prints I'm making using a
> 2720dpi scanner
> are reaching the quality of the 16x20 prints, but they suffer from two
> problem. They are a little fuzzy (lack of microcontrast?) and the
> print dpi
> drops below 240dpi, so that start to show. However the biggest problem I
> have, especial with Kodachrome, is grain aliassing.
>
> Meino de Graaf
>
> > Further, I'm saving my money to upgrade to a 4000dpi scanner.
>
> Why would you want to do that?  The claim has been made that having a
> scanner greater than 2700 SPI is "sufficient" for all our scanning needs!
> Haven't you been reading the thread?
>
> ;-)
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