Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/09/25

[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]

Subject: RE: [Leica] Digital Truly upon us?
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 14:02:10 -0400

While I find myself nodding and mumbling 'so what else is new' to much of
what you say about digital v. film, I also find myself spitting coffee all
over my keyboard as I scream TROLL!!!! when you write that you don't think
you're going to see any difference between film scans made with a 2900 dpi
scanner and a 4000 dpi scanner.

ROFLO and cleaning up the coffee...

B. D.

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Doug Herr
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 8:38 AM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Digital Truly upon us?


>
> what am i doing wrong? how do you guys eke out that last bit of quality
> from scanning?
>

Digital imaging technology obviously has come a long way in only a few years
but you must consider the post-capture processing involoved.  A high-end
digital camera has embeded in its chips the total experience of digital
processing experts, while with photoshop I often feel like I'm just a fool
with a tool.  You're comparing your experience with Photoshop vs. the
expertise embedded in the D30's post-capture processing algorithms.

>
> I don't think this has anything to do with using a 2900 dpi
> scanner - i believe even with a 4000 dpi scanner i'm going to be seeing
> the same results.
>

I see a HUGE difference between my 2400 dpi scans and a 5000 dpi drum scan.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com


- --
To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html

- --
To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html

Replies: Reply from "Rob Appleby" <rob@robertappleby.com> (Re: [Leica] Digital Truly upon us?)