Digital BW, The Print

Matthew 

There is nothing wrong with taking the best possible scan of your negative.
In fact I would say that you should get the best scan from the best scanner
you can afford.  I rent an Imacon 848 by the hour and scan 35mm at 6300 dpi
- grain and all.  You should scan at the optical resolution of the scanner -
which I believe you are.

But if the resolution is way overboard for your output capabilities then you
might consider down-rezzing the file to something more manageable after the
scan.  The problem with this is if you then want to print large you may have
to rework the file.  So down-rez or load up on computing power.

Enjoy!

Steve 


> From: Matthew Wensing <wensing@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 05:32:16 -0800 (PST)
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Computing power
> 
> 
> Because I'm the new guy that just got his Epson 4870
> but hasn't yet done enough reading to really know what
> he does and doesn't need out of it.  :)
> 
> Matt
> 
> --- "B. Campbell" <bellis60@...> wrote:
> 
> 
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>> I scan in 4x5 negatives at 4800 dpi, 16-bit
> grayscale,
> 
> Why?
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Anthony G. Atkielski" <anthony@...>
> To: "Matthew Wensing"
> <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 12:00 AM
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Computing power
> 
> 
> 
> Matthew Wensing writes:
> 
>> I scan in 4x5 negatives at 4800 dpi, 16-bit
> grayscale,
>> and am having a tough (read: slow) time of it with
>> Photoshop 6.0 with the resulting files.  Actually, I
>> can't even work with the 50-90 mg .jpeg's, but
> instead
>> downsize to roughly 12 megapixels and then
>> dodge/burn/tweak those.  Does anyone here work with
>> digital files around 50-90 megs in Photoshop that is
>> happy with the quickness of their setup in doing so?
>> Right now, with the machine I have, manipulating
> such
>> files is impossible.
> 
> Buy more memory.
> 
>> My machine is an Athlon XP 1.46 Ghz with 1 gig of
> DDR
>> RAM.  Two possible bottlenecks from what I know are
>> memory bus speed (333 Mhz with my current
> motherboard)
>> and also the version of PS I'm using.  CS might be
>> faster from the get-go?
> 
> Install the maximum amount of memory your motherboard
> will support; that
> should help considerably.  Memory is the biggest
> bottleneck with any
> version of Photoshop.  A single gigabyte isn't very
> much for image
> editing, at least not for large film formats.
> 
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