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Re: [Digital BW] Computing power

2004-12-02 by Matthew Wensing

Ah.  Thanks.  

I really do need to do more reading to really get a
grasp on dpi in relation to ppi in relation to pixels
etc.  I have done so once before (but never really
understood it thoroughly), but now that I have the
scanner I plan to go back to it again.

So you're saying that 4800 isn't really giving you
more detail than 1200 for say an 8x10 print? (Not to
ask a dumb question or start a war here...).

If anyone has any recommended articles for figuring
these things out, I'm all ears.

Matt

--- "B. Campbell" <bellis60@...> wrote:


---------------------------------
I asked because I thought you might have a good reason
for scanning 4x5
negatives at that high a ppi such as a need for really
large prints. But if
your prints are in the 16x20 range or less you should
be able to scan at
something like 1200 ppi range and greatly reduce your
file size, which
should speed things up without affecting the quality
of the print.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matthew Wensing" <wensing@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 8:32 AM
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:
>
>
> ---------------------------------
> > 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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