Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> One CD holds the equivalent of three rolls of 120 film. That is an unqualified statement. It depends on what resolution you are talking about. Film will have FAR more resolution than any scanner you can use today, so you actually have more 'information density' on film than you do a CD. If you believe film has, say 4000 pixels/inch, that would be a file of 4000 x 2.5 x 4000 x 2.5 x 3 bytes per image. That equals 300,000,000 bytes per image. That would be two images per CD....which makes film clearly the 'information density' leader... Obviously, if your needs are for much lower resolution, the data size goes way down, but than why would you use medium format in the first place? - -----------------