Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Austin, Thanks for the professional insights. So far, I've always been decreasing the resolution, as I understand it, by changing a (example) 2700 "dpi" 1.41x.94 inch image to a 360 dpi 6.5x4.3 inch image. Don't trust interpolation - haven't needed it - my Epson only goes to 8.5x11. Now, are you referring to the GF compression/resizing as interpolation in this case? I still end up with a smaller file than I got from the scanner. When I first got the utility, I compared it to tif files and Photoshop resizing and didn't see any difference. Perhaps I'm not yet that critical a user. I haven't appreciated the file sizes that high res scanners deliver from medium format, or even 35mm. Over three minutes for a scan? *Gasp* I don't think I'd have the patience to wait that long unless it's a masterpiece. The almost two minutes mine takes with Vuescan makes me crazy. (I don't get proofs, so scan about 75% of each roll just to see what I have. Maybe that's crazy.) I bet a lot of the improvements seen with the newer scanners are evident at lower res. The beauty of having film is you can go back and make new scans when you actually need to make a 20x24 print. This is way, way, OT, but glad for the thread. Learn a lot on this forum. I miss the image quality of traditional B&W prints, and have not done any since getting the Leica, so you could say I don't know what I'm missing at all. Still, this computer crap makes do-your-own-color practical, and I'm lovin' it. Off to the lab now to pick up another 76 frames, and a long night with the Coolscan...... Thanks, again, Carl - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html