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Re: [OM] Medium format film scanners

Subject: Re: [OM] Medium format film scanners
From: Garth Wood <garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 16:53:04 -0700
At 10:14 PM 27/03/2002 +0000, Kierstin wrote:
>so, the picture it takes are say 6x4 cm, isn't that like 3'' x 2'' (I think
>there are 2.5 cm to the inch)?  Why would you want to take shots that small?

That's the size of the *negative*, Kierstin, *not* the print!  A 6x7 negative 
is 4,200 square millimetres, whereas a 35mm negative (like in the Olympus) is 
36x24mm, or 864 square millimetres.  In other words, the 6x7 negative has 
around 4.9 times the area of a 35mm neg, and can therefore be enlarged much 
more (it captures more detail, all other things being equal).

Garth


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