Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/02/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The main cost factor with a drum scan is time. A 900MB scan might tie up the scanner for half a day. Marty On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote: > On 2/2/2012 6:16 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: >> >> When she makes a 900 MB drum scan for half a grand usd do all the lights >> dim >> down in the neighborhood for an hour? Can you see it from outer space? >> > I sure hope so for that much. ?Let's see...my Nikon 35mm scans are 4000 ppi > and 110mb. ?4000 ppi = a 13" print @ 300 ppi. ? What would 900mb be? ?I > will > say that the Heidelberg scans from my 4x5 and 8x10 negs are excellent, but > this was not on the Tango. ?It was on a huge flatbed the name of which > escapes me now. ?And I had to convince the operator that it was "16-bit" > and > "no unsharp mask". ?After we established rapport all was well. > > Ken > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information