Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/07/02

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Subject: [Leica] film scanner DMax
From: Five Senses Productions <fls@home.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 23:19:05 -0700

The 3.x number is called the DMax.  This is a relative scale to show
how much shadow detail a film scanner can handle.  A top of the line drum
scanner
is about 4.0, or near perfect.  A Kodak PhotoCD is supposedly 3.7.  The Nikon 
LS1000 was 3.2 and the Polaroid SprintScan 35 Plus is 3.4.  I think I have
read the
LS2000 is 3.6 or 3.7, which is amazing for a desktop machine!

Francesco