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Re: [Digital BW] From the horses mouth.

2002-01-29 by Derek Clarke

On Tuesday 29 Jan 2002 3:56 am, Thomas Fors wrote:
> That's interesting considering on their web page:
>
> http://www.kodak.com/global/en/professional/products/storage/pcdMaster/abou
>t PCD.shtml
>
> Kodak claims that a 2048 x 3072 (or 6 megapixel) image captures, "all the
> image data 35mm film has to offer."

Loosely translated as "That's how much we could economically pack into the 
scanners we could make at the time"...

Photo-CD was a great product of its day, but don't confuse marketing blurb 
for a system with a discussion of how much detail you can really extract from 
film.

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