Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> >> Conventional estimates say that a 35mm negative has about 20Mb Austin Franklin wrote: >I do not believe that's close. If depends on if you are talking about B&W >(which only has one value/pixel) or color (which has 3 values/pixel). It >also depends on film. You might be ballpark for some 6400 speed B&W film, >but certainly no where near for a 100 speed film. > >I would strongly urge you to do the arithmetic your self. Pick a good >film, take the grain size and see how many grains are in the image >area...and multiply by either 2 or 4. That'll give you a good estimate. > It's a heck of a lot more than 20M. You don't have to be really anal to >see your 20M number is way off... > > What's the MB value for 100 film? I think you have the answer and will appreciate if you can share it with the rest of us. Dan K.