Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My comment was meant as a chide on our "friend" claiming that 2700 SPI was all anyone needed...which, I believe, has been shown to be an entirely false assertion. Sounds like you will get better scans from a decent 4000 SPI scanner. > Austin, > > two reasons. I used to make 16x20 prints from slides (Cibachrome + > Ektachrome prestige). The current prints I'm making using a > 2720dpi scanner > are reaching the quality of the 16x20 prints, but they suffer from two > problem. They are a little fuzzy (lack of microcontrast?) and the > print dpi > drops below 240dpi, so that start to show. However the biggest problem I > have, especial with Kodachrome, is grain aliassing. > > Meino de Graaf > > > Further, I'm saving my money to upgrade to a 4000dpi scanner. > > Why would you want to do that? The claim has been made that having a > scanner greater than 2700 SPI is "sufficient" for all our scanning needs! > Haven't you been reading the thread? > > ;-) > > > >