Digital BW, The Print

Hi Sam,

> Is a functional equivalent of this low-pass/anti-aliasing filtering
> also occurring when film is scanned?

Not that I am aware of.  There is typically IR glass, but that isn't the
same thing.  I know of no low-pass/anti-aliasing filter used in my scanner.

> I think I've seen it said on another, scanning list that in the best
> 35mm films there's detail down (up?) to about 6000 samples per inch,

I would agree with that.

> but I'm not sure resolution is the issue.

No, it typically isn't.

> Whatever the limits of film
> are, I'm curious to know how to relate them to lens quality, scan
> quality, and print quality.

Can you narrow the discussion down a bit...that's a very broad topic, with
lots of tangents, loop-holes and caveats ;-)

Regards,

Austin