Digital BW, The Print

Works fine. I regularly scan 4x5 TriX negatives at 2400 dpi -16 bit 
gray. It is slow, but it just chugs along to finish.

Truman

Mark Hahn wrote:

> it gets slow with 200MP 16 bit files, but it works.  I generally
> downsample to print size and reduce to 8 bit after most critical work
> is done.  the biggest issue is storage... that's why I said recently
> that with 4x5s I just rely on my negatives as the storage medium... 
> I do not want to be burning hundreds of CDs when it is just
> redundant.  I am using an old 1.1GHz Gateway PC with 640 meg ram...
>
> mark
>
> ...
> > i just read that article, and i can't believe that the writer
> suggested
> > scanning negatives at 2400 dpi! wouldn't that just about slow most
> systems to a
> > haul, and crash them?
> ...
>
>