[Leica] Leafscan at 2000+ DPI

[Jim Hemenway <jim@hemenway.com>]

Hello RUGers and LUGers:

Austin Franklin was nice enough to spend several hours of his time
yesterday scanning some of my Rollei MF chromes on his Leafscan. We
didn't have enough time to scan a couple from my Leicaflex SL as we
spent more time talking about things photographic than in scanning.

The dpi was 2000+, I think 2040 but I'm so left-brained that numbers are
not my best subject.

At any rate here are four, (greatly reduced in size) for your viewing
pleasure.  They took about 30 minutes each, including setup/preview and
then the scan itself.  

http://www.hemenway.com/leafscan/

My point in mentioning them here is that they are _BIG_ at 94mb each. 
They choked both my Mac 9500 with 112mb of memory and my 233mhz PC with
64mb, (but with better memory management).  

So, if you're thinking of getting one of the two new MF, (does 35mm
also) scanners from Polaroid or Nikon then you will need to be sure to
have a lot of memory installed in your computer... a whole lot more with
the 4000 dpi scans from those machines.

Incidentally, the 2000+ dpi scan from the Leafscan appears to have
enough information in it to make some very nice prints at 24 x 24 inches
at around 200-300+ dpi.... did I tell you that I'm not good with
numbers?  Austin feel free to correct me.

I wouldn't mind having a Nikon "6000" at 2000 dpi if it existed. It
would certainly be good enough for my 11x11 or 13x13 prints.  The
current MF Minolta Dimage and the Nikon only produce 1000dpi on MF which
for me is only good enough for 6x6 whereas a Pro Photo CD of MF gives
1400 dpi... prints a decent 8x8.

I left a 2.8 Planar and a back with Austin for his new/old Rollei
6008... I'm looking forward to hearing from him on his Rollei/Hassy
comparisons.

Thanks for everything Austin.  For those of you who haven't met Austin,
he doesn't bite.

Jim