Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In terms of buying scanners you should be thinking of the output you need. If you are working with an inkjet (Epson) the max size (Super A3) you will need can come from a 2700 ppi scanner. After some pretty careful testing any rez over 200 dpi given to an inkjet is wasted ( Pizeography is an exception to this because Cone has overwritten the stepper motor driver). So a print that will fill a 13"X19" page with a little border works out to around 28 megs which is the 2700's output. The attraction of the 4000 scanners (I have the polaroid 120) for me is the the ability to do 120, the great density range, bigger scans make retouching and image manipulation more precise. Every (press) printer (seemingly no matter what line screen they are using) wants every print 300dpi. It is important to remember that scanners scan PPI, inkjets print DPI the two are not interchangable. The point ... don't buy more then you need. I work with a Hell Gertag drum scanner, Polaroid 120 and Agfa T2500. More times than not I will use the Agfa for inkjets cos---thats all I need. Not everyone has to jump on the 4000 dpi band wagon. A note on digital, after reading Erwins note about how film lenses would suffer on a digital camera I was throughly convinced. Then I received a D1X and I'm not convinced- you guys should see the images it produces-wow. Roy Feldman Digital Imaging Ford Photographic rfeldma1@ford.com _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp