Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/10

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Subject: Re: [Leica] scanner recommendation
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@neteze.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 18:13:46 -0800

At 11:01 AM -0800 12/10/99, George Hartzell wrote:
> > Nope, there may be more detail in the shadows from multi-scanning,
> > but the highest resolution of the scanner is the best it can actually
> > do. Any software interpolation, no matter what buzz word they use, is
> > going to be non-image data.
>
>It's likely that the resolution of the file is staying the same (the
>number of pixels in the image), but that the files are larger because
>there is more information stored per pixel.

By coincidence, I found an artilce in PDN today that talks about 
fractiles. It's quite like what was in that program that competed 
with Photoshop that could change an image size up to 100 megs with no 
loss in quality. I forgot about that program. Too bad it never made 
it. I'm sure it's price of $1,500 was one problem, and it was too 
late when they finally dropped the price to a reasonable level.

Anyway, Tina, I stand corrected. You don't get better quality, but 
the quality doesn't go down.
- --

Eric Welch
Carlsbad, CA

Zen master to hotdog vendor. "Make me one with everything."