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[OM] Re: result of slide to digital using E-1

Subject: [OM] Re: result of slide to digital using E-1
From: swisspace <swisspace@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 09:10:11 +0200
I need to experiment some more - no time at the moment unfortunately, 
but the 50mm only got half the slide, so it would need two images 
photostitched to get the whole slide, would it not then be nearly 
equivalent to 4000dpi.



> 
> But how good? At 2560x1920 pixels for 4:3 ratio, The E-1 works out to 
> 1800 dpi copying the full 36 mm width of 35 mm film, 2000 dpi if cropped 
> to 24x32 mm. That will leave a lot of the detail on the film behind. 
> More than enough for the web and enough for modest sized prints, 
> although I wonder how they would look compared to those from higher 
> resolution scans.
> 
> There's lots of different opinions of how much scanner resolution is 
> needed to capture all the detail on film, but the lower end is somewhere 
> around 4000 dpi.
> 
> I'm not trying to say that you will or won't be happy with the results. 
> Just doing the kind of analysis I would do for myself before undertaking 
> the project.
> 
> Moose
> 
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