Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "steveabrink"
<steveabrink@...> wrote:
>
> 4X5 Black and White Negatives can hold a tremendous amount of 
> information --on the order of 2000+ ppi optical to capture all the 
> potential data. 

Isn't that true for any film and why we have 4000dpi desktop scanners
for 35mm?

I'll agree that a 16 bit 4000dpi scan of 4x5 inch film is ridiculously
large.