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Re: [OM] Solicitation for BIG Images!

Subject: Re: [OM] Solicitation for BIG Images!
From: Jan Steinman <Jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 08:49:33 -0800
From: Jan Steinman <Jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

 >From: Denton Taylor <denton@xxxxxxxx>
 >
 >The problem I ran into with this stuff... you need
 >massive numbers of megaytes scans, and where do you go for those?

For a fine-art quality 50" by 33" print, you need about 143 MB of
information. A 6x6 scanned at about 5000 spi will put you in the
ballpark with fine-grain film, and a 4x5 only needs to be scanned at
3,000 spi to get to that size.

OOPS! I'm off by a factor of three on file sizes. I thought they looked small when I typed them, but re-ran the numbers before sending. What do you get when you run the same data through a faulty algorithm? :-)

There are, of course, three bytes per pixel. The numbers above are valid for B&W, though.

: Jan Steinman <mailto:Jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
: Bytesmiths <http://www.bytesmiths.com>

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