Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 11/17/04 5:51 PM, Rick Dykstra at rdcb37@dodo.com.au wrote: > what's the LUGs view on how 10.5 Mpix > compares with good film? I enlarge from film to 20x30in, via a 6144 x > 4096 scan. The digi back's sensor is way less pixels than this, by my > calculations, good for around 8 x 12 at the same resolution. Not bad, > but not as good as film. > There isn't a direct correlation between pixels from scanned film and native pixels. The scanned photo needs to have quite a few more pixels to make up for the losses inherent in making the scan. Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com