Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina: Unless you are printing commercially, you are scanning at resolutions that are not likely to result in improvement in print output on a standard inkjet or digital minilab system. It's not that there's anything particularly wrong with a high resolution scan.... it's just it takes up so much space on your hard drive. Try printing out at various resolutions. I suspect that you can't see much difference above 300 or 600 dpi. - -Mark - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tina Manley" <images@InfoAve.Net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 8:21 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] film scanner recommendation > At 09:11 AM 5/22/01 +0200, you wrote: > > >Note that if you use the Silverfast plug-in you can scan at 5400 dpi with > >the LS-2000 which gives an over 100Mb file. More than I would be interested > >in handling! > > Robert, > > Silverfast is interpolating to get 5400 dpi. I used it, too, but get > better results with the actual 4000 dpi resolution of the LS-4000. > > >Silverfast also allows you to focus the scanner on any part of the image and > >I have found the results to be very good. > > You can also do this with the Nikon software. Hold down control key (on > PC's) when you click on the focus feature and you get a crosshair that you > can put on any portion of the image to focus. Nikon doesn't explain this > with the LS-2000 software, but does with the LS-4000. > > Tina > > > Tina Manley, ASMP > http://www.tinamanley.com > >