Digital BW, The Print

That only satisfies you, really. The actual test is the print and a magnifying glass.

In any case, the scan is heavily manipulated just to display on low res(dpi) monitors. You really need a console viewer to really see what the file looks like.

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On 1/3/08 at 3:58 PM AnnMarie Tornabene wrote:

>Well, this is what I gathered from running the test. I scanned in at  
>4800 dpi, then scanned the same negative at 12,800 dpi and as I  
>suspected,  got a better result from the latter. There is a huge  
>amount of pixelation, especially in the skin tone, and some quick  
>jumps between tones when I scanned in at 4800. Then I tried scanning  
>at 3200 because sometimes there is a key resolution to use that works  
>and anything above it gives similar results. Well, it did  look  
>slightly better than the 4800 dpi scan, but still not as nice as the  
>12,800.
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>What's that old saying? If it ain't broke, don't fix it? But I do  
>appreciate the advice as always. Thank you! :D
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>AnnMarie
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