Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Conventional estimates say that a 35mm negative has about 20Mb I do not believe that's close. If depends on if you are talking about B&W (which only has one value/pixel) or color (which has 3 values/pixel). It also depends on film. You might be ballpark for some 6400 speed B&W film, but certainly no where near for a 100 speed film. I would strongly urge you to do the arithmetic your self. Pick a good film, take the grain size and see how many grains are in the image area...and multiply by either 2 or 4. That'll give you a good estimate. It's a heck of a lot more than 20M. You don't have to be really anal to see your 20M number is way off...