Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]2.1 megapixels sounds like a lot! Does anyone know how that resolution compares to film? - --Frank __________________________________________________ Frank - If you want a technical explanation, Jim Brick's your man. BUT...Consider that an 8x10, 576 dpi grayscale 8 bit depth file produced from a 2400 dpi scan of a neg produces a file of about 20 megabytes....There is infinitely more information contained in a standard neg, and the scan from it, than you can possibly get onto a 2.1 meg digital pic. Those cameras will give you perfectly decent snap shots...but at this point, the only way to approach "Leica quality" is to shoot with a Leica and then scan with the best scanner you can possibly get your hands on, and preserve as much of that information on disk as you have storage space for... B. D.