Digital BW, The Print

On 04/06/2010 Michael wrote:
> Re: scanner resolution. Here's a link to a review of the scanner I'm 
> using, the Epson 4870. It's in this review that the comment was made 
> regarding 3000 dpi as being the max setting for b&w negative film; 
> read a couple of pages to get the gist of what he's talking about.
> 
> http://www.photo-i.co.uk/Reviews/interactive/Epson%204870/page_6.htm

It's really up to you and your budget for TB disks (and the backups). Of 
course everything slows down with larger scans.

There's no point scanning at more than the native resolution of the 
scanner, as better interpolation can be achieved in PS, or specialist s/w, 
if needed. Equally you can always downsample from a larger file.

Personally I find scanning so tedious I only want to ever do it once, even 
if that means lots of disk space for 16 bit master TIFF's that I can 
produce derivatives from. With a V700, some of my 6x6cm scans are ~280MB. 
  35mm @4000ppi from a Polaroid4000 are 110MB. However if you know for 
sure you will never want to print at bigger than 7x5", 240-300ppi is 
sufficient for inkjets.

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Regards

Tony Sleep
http://tonysleep.co.uk