Digital BW, The Print

>> I have now abandoned that approach, but only in part.  Now I find
>> grain to
>> be, relatively, a more serious problem than sharpness.

>You just need a bigger negative Paul - you need to start at 8x10    :-)

I actually have an 8x10 head for my enlarger.  However, I used 8x10 mostly
for internegatives, including digital ones.

I've always thought it would be fun to have one of the spy-plane's huge
roll-film cameras.  I once read that those puppies resolve 80 lp/mm over an
entire 8x10 negative area.  Now that's what I call information capture.
Hmm, how many terabytes of RAM would I need to scan & manipulate that image
at 4000 ppi (high bit depth, of course)?

Paul