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Subject: [Leica] Thoughts on drum scanning
From: benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney)
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 11:43:01 +1030
References: <CB509173.19D5C%mark@rabinergroup.com> <4F2B32B5.6060409@cox.net>

The main cost factor with a drum scan is time.  A 900MB scan might tie
up the scanner for half a day.

Marty

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote:
> On 2/2/2012 6:16 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>>
>> When she makes a 900 MB drum scan for half a grand usd do all the lights
>> dim
>> down in the neighborhood for an hour? Can you see it from outer space?
>>
> I sure hope so for that much. ?Let's see...my Nikon 35mm scans are 4000 ppi
> and 110mb. ?4000 ppi = a 13" print @ 300 ppi. ? What would 900mb be? ?I 
> will
> say that the Heidelberg scans from my 4x5 and 8x10 negs are excellent, but
> this was not on the Tango. ?It was on a huge flatbed the name of which
> escapes me now. ?And I had to convince the operator that it was "16-bit" 
> and
> "no unsharp mask". ?After we established rapport all was well.
>
> Ken
>
>
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